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News: Teemu Selanne Would Still Be Playing If It Weren’t For Boudreau

Mark Easson 09/18/2014
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Teemu Selanne is coming out with a book, English version in 2015. Juha Hiitela (@jhiitela) put out a bunch of tweets of Selanne talking about Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau …

  • ”It would have been wrong if we had won the Stanley Cup with coach like that.”
  • “You are as good as you your coach wants you to be. If we had any other coach, I’d still be playing.”
  • After being scratched by Boudreau for Game 4 against the Stars: “I waited after everyone else had left the ice and skated to Boudreau…”  “I yelled him right to his face what I was thinking. I ask what he has against me. I told him that since he became our coach” … “he has not respected me one bit. You never put me on ice when we play 5on3 of 4on4 or when we are one goal behind in the end of the game.” … “Be honest for one time and answer.! He just stammered that decisions we not his alone and it was a group decision.” … “I ask which group and he said GM and scouts. I yelled him “whow, what kind of a coach you are if you don’t even decide lineup!”.” … “He tried to skate away but I just yelled I wasn’t finish. I told Boudreau if you ever want to win something in a playoffs you’re going to need me. Nobody else wants to win as much as me. It felt really good.”
  • Juha Hiitela: Selanne mentions that he considered signing with the Kings or Jets in 2013 instead of re-signing with the Ducks because of Boudreau.
  • Heading into last season: “BB promised (b4 season) that I will play 1st PP unit and 2nd PP unit and get average of 15min ice time…” … “He even said he wants to see me scoring my 700th goal.” … “Season started well, but after that my time on ice declined, just like previous year. He didn’t keep any of his promises.”
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TAGGED:Anaheim DucksBruce BoudreauLos Angeles KingsTeemu SelanneWinnipeg Jets

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