McGill grad Boucher guides Drummondville to QMJHL crown
MONTREAL 鈥� Guy Boucher, a former McGill hockey captain and assistant coach from Roxboro, Que., made history in Drummondville Tuesday.
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He coached the Drummondville Voltigeurs to a 3-2 win over Shawinigan in Game 7 of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League final. It marked the first Presidents Cup league title in team history for Drummondville, which went from last-to-first in the standings, posting a stunning 79-point turnaround from the 2007-08 season.
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The Voltigeurs will head to Rimouski to join the host Oc茅anic, the Kelowna Rockets and the Windsor Spitfires at the 2009 Memorial Cup junior championship, May 15-24.
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Boucher, 37, studied sports psychology at the Universit茅 de Montr茅al and holds arts and engineering degrees from McGill, where he played four seasons for the Redmen, from 1991 to 1995.
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At McGill, Boucher scored 71 goals and 183 points in 141 career games. He won the Guy Lafleur trophy in 1993, the Bobby Bell trophy as team MVP in 1993-94 and captained the Redmen in 1994-95.
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He also served as an assistant to Martin Raymond鈥檚 coaching staff and has been coaching hockey since graduating in 1995, including stints as an assistant coach with the Oc茅anic and with the Canadian under-18 team in 2006 and 2008.
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Prior to his 2006 appointment in Drummondville, Boucher had head coaching experience with the West Island Lions on the Quebec junior AAA league and in 1996, captured a national championship in France with the Viry Chatillon, a junior elite team.
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Last January, Boucher served as an assistant to head coach Pat Quinn and helped Canada win the IIHF world junior championship.
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SOURCE :
Earl Zukerman
Communications Officer
McGill Athletics & Recreation
earl.zukerman [at] mcgill.ca