SAN JOSE — The Sharks will reportedly have to begin searching for a new assistant coach.

Bob Boughner, who spent the past two seasons as an assistant under Pete DeBoer, is expected to be announced as the new coach of the Florida Panthers on Monday, TSN’s Bob McKenzie tweeted Saturday.

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Home sweet home? Giants, visitors at Oracle Park, tie franchise record in win The South Florida Sun-Sentinel also reported that a deal between the Panthers and Boughner is expected to be finalized on Monday. Boughner would be the Panthers’ 15th head coach in their history and their fifth since 2011. This would be Boughner’s first NHL head coaching job.

The Panthers were also the team that gave DeBoer his first NHL head coaching job. DeBoer coached in Florida from 2008-2011.

Boughner would take over for Tom Rowe, who had been named interim head coach — taking over for Gerard Gallant — in late November. Rowe was demoted after a turbulent 2016-17 season that saw the Panthers miss the playoffs and finish sixth in the Atlantic Division with 81 points.

Boughner takes over a Panthers team, though, that has several key players under the age of 25, including forwards Vincent Trocheck, Aleksander Barkov and Jonathan Huberdeau and defensemen Aaron Ekblad and Michael Matheson.

Boughner’s primary duties with the Sharks were working with the defenseman and coordinating the penalty kill. He and DeBoer are credited with instilling more confidence in Brent Burns, who is a finalist for the Norris Trophy for a second straight season. The Sharks this past season ranked fifth in the NHL in goals allowed per game (2.44).

Boughner, who played in 630 NHL regular season games as a defenseman over 10 seasons, was also finalist for the Colorado Avalanche head coaching job last summer after Patrick Roy abruptly left the team. The Avalanche hired Jared Bednar as Roy’s replacement.

Boughner, 46, interviewed with Panthers general manager Dale Tallon interviewed in late May. He was also thought to be a strong candidate for the Buffalo Sabres’ head coaching job.

Boughner coached the Windsor Spitfires to Memorial Cup titles in 2009 and 2010, teams that featured a handful of current NHL players, including Taylor Hall, Ryan Ellis and Adam Henrique.

Boughner then became an assistant coach with Columbus for the 2010-11 season under Scott Arniel.

“I’m glad I did what I did,” Boughner told WindsorEssexTV in May. “This is my third full year on an NHL bench and looking back, at the time when I won a couple (Memorial) Cups, I said, ‘I’m ready to go to the NHL.’ Well, it’s not as easy as you think.

“There’s a lot of learning and the league changes every year and team’s identities. You see teams, the L.A.’s — four or five years ago winning Stanley Cups. Now those teams are built completely different. Now it’s the teams, the Pittsburgh’s, the Nashville’s, all of these speedier teams. So, you’ve got to stay on top of it. You’ve got to know the league.

“I feel comfortable going into a position if I was fortunate to be in that position to one, to manage people. Managing NHLers is different than managing kids in the OHL. I know how teams are playing, their tendencies, their coaching. So that experience has helped me. I’m ready. I’m definitely ready and I want to get my own team.”