Bruce Boudreau has landed in Ottawa and will reportedly meet with the Senators about their coaching vacancy before the end of the week.
The former Anaheim Ducks head coach arrived in Canada's capital Thursday night in preparation for a face-to-face interview with Senators general manager Pierre Dorion on Friday, Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Citizen reports.
"My daughter lives here, my granddaughter who I don't get to see too often and she's only (18 months) and actually all my family is back East," Boudreau told Garrioch from his Ottawa hotel Thursday night.
"That's always a really compelling thing. Ottawa itself is compelling itself because (the Senators have) the opportunity to be a pretty good team and they've got a lot of pretty good pieces in place."
Boudreau, who has already interviewed with the Minnesota Wild, said it's been a hectic week.
"It really has. Since it's last Friday it's been pretty crazy, just with the phone blowing up, but I've gone through it before so I know the phone blows up a lot when these things happen."
Senators owner Eugene Melnyk said Wednesday that he expected the list of coaching candidates to be narrowed down to two by Friday.
Bob Hartley, Mike Yeo, Guy Boucher, Randy Carlyle, Marc Crawford, Benoit Groulx, and Kevin Dineen are also on Dorion's list, according to Garrioch.
At least six of the candidates have reportedly already been interviewed.
Boudreau was fired by the Ducks last Friday, two days after Anaheim was eliminated in Game 7 of its first-round playoff series against the Nashville Predators.
The Senators fired former head coach Dave Cameron on April 12 after missing the playoffs with a record of 38-35-9.
