Breaking: Team has hired their new head coach.

The Ottawa Senators appear to have found their new bench boss.

The team has named Guy Boucher as their new head coach, and have signed him to a three-year deal.

The 44-year-old becomes the 12th coach in team history, taking over behind the bench after the dismissal of Dave Cameron last month. 

Boucher has spent parts of the last three seasons as the head coach of SC Bern of the National League A in Switzerland, posting a 44-29-5 record. Prior to that, he spent two-plus seasons as the head coach of the National Hockey League’s Tampa Bay Lightning, posting a 97-78-20 record in 195 games. Boucher led the Lightning to the Eastern Conference Final in 2010-11.

"Over the past three weeks, Pierre Dorion and our hockey operations staff have undertaken a thorough and comprehensive search for our next head coach. Following a detailed evaluation of all coaching candidates, there was overwhelming consensus that Guy was our top candidate," said Senators owner Eugene Melnyk. "We wanted a great coach and this process yielded our top pick. I couldn’t be happier. On behalf of the entire Senators organization, the great city of Ottawa and our fans, I want to welcome Guy, his wife Marsha and their three children, Vincent, Mila and Naomi."

Boucher will be formally introduced as coach during a news conference on Monday.

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