Frank Boucher (coach)

Sgt. Frank Boucher March 3, 1919 (in Ottawa, Ontario – December 4, 2003) was a Canadian ice hockey coach and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) officer. He served as the head coach of the Ottawa RCAF Flyers which represented the Canadian national hockey team in ice hockey at the 1948 Winter Olympics. Despite two lopsided losses in exhibition games before the Olympics, Canadian Amateur Hockey Association vice-president Norman Dawe held an emergency meeting and retained Boucher as coach, and agreed to bolster the team from the best available players. The Flyers went on the win the gold medal for Canada.Frank Boucher's Minor League Photograph CollectionHistory-1948 Winter The 1948 team was honoured by the Canadian Forces in 2001, when selected as Canada's greatest military athletes of the 20th century.
Sgt. Boucher was the son of Georges BoucherANSPORTS: 1943-44 Authentic Royal Canadian Air Force Jersey Royal Canadian Air Force Jersey and a nephew of Frank Boucher, both who are members of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Boucher died on December 4, 2003, of pneumonia in Osgoode, Ontario."Sports Journal Briefs; Former Olympic hockey coach dies; Raines joins Expos staff; Finnish skier cops giant slalom race",
Anonymous. New Brunswick Telegraph Journal [Saint John, N.B] 15 Dec 2003. He was posthumously inducted into the Lisgar Collegiate Institute Athletic Wall of Fame in 2018.Alere Flammam, Lisgar Alumni Association Newsletter, Winter 2018
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Category:Canadian ice hockey coaches
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Category:Canadian National Team coaches
Category:Canadian Olympics coach