Boucher jokes it won't be a chess match if Rangers put checker on Pageau
Guy Boucher isn't keeping his sense of humor in check.
The Ottawa Senators head coach had the perfect one-liner ready when asked about a potential Game 3 adjustment from New York Rangers bench boss Alain Vigneault.
Vigneault said earlier Sunday that he might have to "put a checker on their checker," to neutralize Jean-Gabriel Pageau, according to NHL.com's Dan Rosen. "He's supposed to be their checker and he scored four goals."
Boucher's response was terrific.
“I'm going to check his checkers and he'll check my checkers," he said, via TSN 1200's Chris Stevenson. "I guess it won't be a chess match then. It'll be a checkers match.”
Well played, Guy.
Pageau capped off his four-goal outburst in Game 2 with the overtime winner that gave the Senators a 2-0 series lead heading to New York.
As the matchup shifts to Madison Square Garden, the pressure's on Vigneault and the Rangers to make the next move.