With over 44 years of experience in the sport, Bruce Boudreau has made more than a couple pit stops along the way.
His latest, though, moving to Minnesota after being named the Wild's coach in the offseason, was nothing he'd ever seen before.
Boudreau and his wife, Crystal, packed their belongings from their offseason home in Hershey, Pa., and learned four days after arriving in Minnesota, that one of three moving trucks flipped, and destroyed everything inside.
"Crystal's losing it because one-third of two houses is gone," Boudreau told Michael Russo of The Star Tribune. "We're basically getting half-broken furniture. We lost five big-screen TVs, a bubble hockey game, popcorn makers, tables. My wife used to run a business, they called her the Chocolate Lady. The chocolate fountain was destroyed. So much stuff, pictures, lots of pictures, all the frames destroyed."
According to the moving company, the Boudreau family safe was also destroyed in the crash. The safe's contents included the coach's two Memorial Cup Championship rings, an engraved Rolex watch, and his prized Spiderman comics.
Boudreau, however, disputes the movers' claim, as video has since been discovered of two people moving the safe from one truck to another.
"We want justice," Boudreau said. "I've never been sort of violated like this. I just want them arrested because I know they did it. I don't think it was a planned robbery or anything, but they took advantage of the situation. But they didn't count on there being video.
"I don't see us getting anything back even though there's that one percent of yourself that would like to think maybe."
The incident is currently under investigation.
