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He has been. He’s definitely different than Greener for sure. I think Travis will eventually land another NHL coaching gig in another market. But Bruce’s countenance is refreshing. I don’t often like Francesco and his “meddling” with the team and the hockey ops, but if this was indeed his decision to bring in Boudreau, then it’s been a good one so far. One game doesn’t mean much if the team is going to spiral into another 6 game losing streak.    But the way the team played on Monday against the Kings was a team we haven’t seen almost at all this season. I’m not sure how Green lost the room with the current guys, but Boudreau is less than 48 hours seems to already have gotten the same group that Green lost, to buy into his system. I mean, we are seeing certain players like Petey and Hughes wanting - wanting - to kill penalties for Bruce.    I wonder if that was happening with Green. And if it wasn’t, why wasn’t it happening with Green?    Baumgartner is looking worse and worse by the day especially with the way he handled the PK and the defense. First game in, and Shaw is already looking like a genius and miles ahead. They &^@#ing shut out the Kings. How often can we say this season that they’ve shut out anyone so far this year? I don’t think they’ve shut out anyone this season up until Monday.    With the way that Demko has been playing, you’d think maybe he would have a few more shutouts, but no, Monday was his first shutout of the season, and it was the team’s first shutout of the year. All the other games they’ve been in, not one shutout, and Bruce comes in, and already has a positive effect. The team looked faster, quicker to pucks. Why wasn’t this happening with Green when he coaching the team?    It baffles me.    And why was Green so rigid in his coaching? Boudreau comes in and makes tweaks, he’s not making massive changes - small changes, trying out new things, being open and flexible to trying. Why was Green who is far younger than Boudreau, wouldn’t have tried some of the things that Bruce has tried so far. It’s really odd that he was so “my way, or the high way” - it wasn’t good for the team, that much was and is obvious. He didn’t have many players, if any, who seemed like they would run through a wall for him. And here you have Bruce, and there are players already wanting to run through walls for him. What’s the deal with that?     

Even if trading him rebuilds the right side of the defence and brings in a young 3C ?

A big hell no to moving Horvat.