When the Ottawa Senators fired head coach David Cameron back in April, it was clear that they wanted to bring in coaching staff with more NHL experience to try and stop the revolving door that has been the Sens head coach position since the Jacques Martin era of 1996-2004.
On May 8th 2016, GM Pierre Dorion announced that they hired former Tampa Bay Lightning coach Guy Boucher as the new head coach of the Senators. Then on May 9th 2016, it was announced that Boucher had brought in Marc Crawford as his associate coach.