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Lightning coach bears scars, earns stripes
Published: 9 November 2010
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(PHOTO OF GUY BOUCHER COURTESY OF GARY RUSH)
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By Kevin McGran
The Toronto Star
Nov. 9, 2010
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TAMPA-Lightning coach Guy Boucher won't talk about the scars on his right cheek, but he doesn't mind joking about a hatchet job by hockey legend Patrick Roy that forced him to turn the other cheek.
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If anyone was built to take the criticism it's Boucher, who played university hockey at ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ then pro in France before moving behind the bench. He's more educated than most coaches with multiple degrees - including biosystems engineering, environmental biology and history - but it may be his masters in sports psychology that sets him apart.
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