Guy Boucher will be back behind the Ottawa Senators bench next season
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second-to-last place finish in 2017-18.
Dorion said Boucher would run the power play, while assistants Rob Cookson and Marc Crawford will join Boucher behind the bench.
Boucher’s future was in doubt after the Senators struggled to a 28-43-11 record last season, one year removed from making the Eastern Conference
final.
Special teams were a particular concern for the Senators. Ottawa finished 27th in the 31-team league with a power play that converted on just 16.6 percent
of chances
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With the coaching situation stabilized, the Senators can turn their attention toward trying to sign captain Erik Karlsson to an extension.
The superstar defenseman becomes an unrestricted free agent after next season.
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Thunder television play-by-play man Brian Davis has been suspended for Game 1 of the playoff series against Utah on Sunday for a comment he made about star
Russell Westbrook during Oklahoma City’s regular-season finale against
Memphis.
Davis said Westbrook was ”out of his cotton-pickin’ mind,” an exclamation that came after the Oklahoma City guard made an assist in Wednesday’s game on
his way to setting an NBA record for averaging a triple-double in multiple
seasons.
Cotton picking was the primary responsibility for black slaves in the South, so the term can be offensive when used by a white person to describe a black
person. Many took to social media to complain about Davis’ choice of words.
Davis is white and Westbrook is black.
Dan Mahoney
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”inappropriate.”
”It is with great remorse and humility that I accept this suspension for the insensitive words I used during Wednesday’s broadcast,” Davis said in a
statement. ”While unintentional, I understand and acknowledge the gravity of the
situation. I offer my sincere apology and realize that
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actions.”
Davis also apologized on Facebook.
Mahoney said Matt Pinto, the team’s radio play-by-play announcer, will step in for the television broadcast
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