Guy Boucher has decided to follow in the footsteps of Bob Hartley.
Posted at 12:44 p.m.
Omsk Avangard announced it had hired Boucher as head coach on Wednesday.
The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) club offered the Quebecer a two-season contract, which will expire after the conclusion of the 2025-26 campaign. Financial details of the pact were not specified.
Hartley led the Avangard from 2018-2022 and won the Gagarin Cup in 2020-21, as well as being named KHL Coach of the Year.
For his part, Boucher, who is 53 years old, “will arrive in Omsk and be behind the team bench by mid-December,” the Russian club said in its press release confirming the hiring. Pending his arrival, Avangard reported that Sergei Zvyagin will act as interim head coach.
The Notre-Dame-du-Lac coach led the Tampa Bay Lightning from 2011 to 2013. After a three-season stay in Europe with the Swiss club Berne, Boucher returned to the NHL by leading the Senators of Ottawa from 2016 to 2019.
He then served as an assistant coach with the Toronto Maple Leafs during the 2023-24 season. After the firing of head coach Sheldon Keefe and the hiring of Craig Berube, the Leafs announced that Boucher would not return behind the Toronto team’s bench.
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