Bruce Boudreau allowed himself all of a couple of hours to decompress following his firing as Ducks coach. He grabbed his golf clubs and hit the links, but barely long enough to ponder his second shots.
"I didn't even keep score," Boudreau said. "I just hit the ball and relaxed."
Since then? It's been a blur. Boudreau has nearly lost his voice from many phone conversations as he attempts to get a third shot as an NHL head coach, after stops in Washington and Anaheim.
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"Everybody and their brother's been phoning," Boudreau said Tuesday with a hoarse voice, six days after his team was eliminated in the first round by Nashville.