Bruce Boudreau is a wanted man.

Not for the Ducks any more. That ship has sailed after five eventful seasons. But as was his lightning-quick transition from Washington to Anaheim in the fall of 2011, it appears the former coach won’t be out of a job for very long.

Boudreau is currently in Ottawa interviewing for the Senators job. Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Sun spoke with the 61-year-old coach and has the goods on the process. It could be a perfect match as Boudreau’s daughter, Kasey, and 18-month-old granddaugher live in Canada’s capital. He’s also from Toronto and has family ties to St. Catharines, Ontario.

Minnesota GM Chuck Fletcher has already talked to Boudreau and Calgary could be trying to do so after firing Bob Hartley (to which does he now become a candidate in Anaheim?). So there is a very good chance that the Ducks will get out from under the remaining year that Boudreau had on his contract.

There will be the two distinct narratives that Boudreau wrote with the Ducks — the regular season and playoffs. Franchise records for wins (54) and points (116). Leading the NHL in offense (2013-14), defense (2015-16), power play (2015-16) and penalty killing (2015-16). Four Pacific Division titles. Four Game 7 losses at home, a 3-4 playoff series record and no Cup.

His run wasn’t fully satisfying and won’t ever be for a good portion of those in Duckland. You can’t say it wasn’t memorable.

Boudreau discussed his firing here but this is Monday’s full interview with The Orange County Register:

Register: How did you process your firing in the first 24-48 hours?

Boudreau: It’s sort of like you’re numb a little bit. You don’t know which way to turn. Because it’s like overtime, it’s like sudden death. One day everything is going good and the next day, all of a sudden you’re thinking I got to move. I got to contact people. I got to do a lot of stuff. You’re sort of overwhelmed with the things that are going on in the first 24 hours. I think the intitial reaction is the whole world is going to know and you feel embarrassed about it. But then after time, it didn’t take a long time to say, ‘Ok, that’s fine. Let’s see if I can move on to my next adventure.'”

Register: What sense did you have that Bob Murray would fire you?

Boudreau: I always had the sense that something was going to happen unless we actually won the Cup. I think that’s the person that I am. The worrywart in me is always worried about that. I didn’t know where it would go. I had let some people know that it was great working with them before it happened. And I thought it was going to happen. Quite frankly, I’m glad Bob did it when he did it and not waited too long. I thought that was pretty classy. It wasn’t not expected. We expected a lot from us on our team and I expected a lot from me and we didn’t get to where we wanted to be.

Register: Did you really feel you had to win the Stanley Cup to coach the Ducks next season?

Boudreau: I didn’t know. But I knew the way we lost in the conference final last year — and I think you asked a question right after we lost — and he said he’s going to take time to figure out his coaching stiautions. So that was always in the back of my mind. Oh, wow, we better do really good. I’m sure he thought hard about it. Quite frankly, I’m really happy he stuck with me through October, November and December and gave me a chance to help turn the team around. And then when we did that, things were going pretty good from Christmas on.

Register: What was the worst feeling you had after the Game 7 loss?

Boudreau: Again, I was numb. But I was more interested in how the players felt quite frankly because I knew from Christmas on they’d left everything on the table. And I think in Game 7, they left everything on the ice. I don’t think anybody would say we sat back and were dogs that game. I thought we played the best game of the series there, except for the first 10 minutes. Even in the first 10 minutes, the goals they got were one chance, perfect shot. One deflection, perfect deflection. And we just couldn’t find a way to score.

When I saw the players in the dressing room, I was pretty sad that they had such high expectations of themselves and it didn’t come through. Especially the core that had been there for a couple of years and we’ve done this. But I just told them how proud I was to be able to coach this team and how great the individuals were. And then I left. You don’t want to get too emotional after a game. They’re already down and out. I didn’t know when I’d be speaking to them again because I had that thought in the back of my mind that something bad could happen. And so I told them right after the game how I felt about them.

Register: Did your players fail you?

Boudreau: No. It’s a tough question. All a coach can do is ask them to give their best. Sometimes their best doesn’t work out. But I didn’t think that for the whole year, that everybody there — not one person said I’m not giving it my best. They poured everything into it. They played with emotions and they played with pride. I can never complain that they never did their jobs or anything. I can’t do that. And I would never … it’s just the way I am. I would never believe that people wouldn’t prepare or do the right things or everything to get ready for the game. I believe they gave it everything they had and it just wasn’t good enough right now.

Register: Do you have any regrets on the moves you made against Nashville?

Boudreau: No. I thought the moves that we made, putting Freddie in, moving Nate Thompson to left wing, putting Horcoff in for Wagner and Stoner for Theodore — those were the four made that we made the during the series — I don’t regret them at all. I thought they were the right thing to do at the time and I think that it proved out that it was the right things to do at the time. Other than that, I thought as a group — Paul, Rico, Trent and I and Joe — we were very well prepared for them. There was nothing that they threw at us that was a surprise. Nothing. But in the end, it comes down to execution. You can even look. People will look at our team and will talk about lack of production with some guys.

At the same time, their best players — James Neal had a goal in the first game and a goal in Game 6. Filip Forsberg got one goal in Game 1 and didn’t do anything. Johansen had the one backhand goal. We kept their best players [quiet]. Even Weber had one goal but him and Josi were both minus players against us. Those were the core guys that we were tyring to stop and I think we did. They got great production out of Colin Wilson and Craig Smith. In all four games that Smith played, they won. In the three games that he missed, they lost. I thought it was a nip-and-tuck series between two good teams.

Register: Do you regret no going to Frederik Andersen after Game 1?

Boudreau: No. Because I don’t think it would have been fair to John [Gibson] at that point in time. It wasn’t that we were upset about his goaltending. We wanted to give him the chance to win the next game. I’ve always believed that you’re panicking if you change things after Game 1. It’s just like a panic move. But after two games, when we’re down 0-2, I thought it was a good time to do it. We couldn’t do it after 0-3 because it definitely wouldn’t have been fair to Freddie. Freddie had only played one game in the previous 2½ weeks because of his injury. Granted it was a fabulous game in Washington, which made me think he could play in Game 3 because he played so good in Washington. If he had come in and not played well, then he wouldn’t have been the goalie in Game 3.

Register: Do you regret not putting Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry back together sooner, maybe to start Game 7?

Boudreau: We had our lines and our lines had been really successful. There’s no sense in me changing them. But when you’re not winning and you can’t score, you can’t stay the same. You have to move some people around. The one thing about Corey and Ryan is I knew I could always throw them back and it would be like they didn’t miss a beat. They had good chances to score in both games when we put them back together. But the best way for us to win was with balanced scoroing. That’s what we’ve done since Christmas. With Rakell and Perry and Perron and Getzlaf, I thought we had some balanced scoring, especially with Kesler playing the way he was playing.

Register: David Perron and Rickard Rakell were nowhere close to being 100 percent. How much did that impact you and the lineup?

Boudreau: You’d like everybody to be 100 percent or better. Ricky was coming off a ruptured appendix and had two practices with the team in the two weeks. And so I don’t think he was ever as strong as he would like to be. He would say he would be, but there was just a little jump missing from his game a little bit. He had lost some weight. We were tyring to get it back on him but sometimes if you put it back on too quick, it doesn’t work out as well as you’d like it to. Perron, for sure, his shoulder was bothering him. But the one thing I think you’ve got to give credit, whether he did good things or bad things, he worked his [butt] off and played with passion. That’s what I told him in a text. That he played with passion and he palyed very hard. Whether sometimes it was a little the wrong way, but it didn’t matter. I’ll take errors of omission when they’re working really hard than errors of commission, which is not knowing the system and doing the wrong things.

Register: How do you look at your five years in Anaheim?

Boudreau: I look back at it and what a fabulous time. I met some incredible people that are going to be lifelong friends. When I first took the job, my main thing was to get my son through high school and we did that. Crystal made a lot of friends. And we actually loved it here. It was a great adventure. There wasn’t anybody that we met that we didn’t really like, unless they were a Kings fan. (laughing) My experience there was great. The Anaheim Ducks treated me outstandingly. It’ll be five years that I’ll never forget. It’s tough to leave a great place. And it’s a great place.

Register: How much has your phone been ringing from other clubs?

Boudreau: Um, I’ve had a couple conversations. I can’t delve into it right now. Let’s put it this way, this is why my voice is so bad. I couldn’t talk at all Sunday. I’ve been on the phone all day Friday and Saturday. For 15 hours a day, it was pretty crazy. Whether it was support or people talking to me about different things. It was pretty crazy. And fairly exciting. Scotty Bowman phoned me out of the blue. I know who he is and I know he knows who I am. He was telling me to keep my head up.

Register: Ottawa and Minnesota are looking for coaches. Do you want to coach again right away or wait and see if another NHL job opens up somewhere?

Boudreau: Absolutely. I’ve always worked. Since I was 17 years old, there was never a time I never had a job. In the hockey jobs when I’ve gotten fired, I’ve tried to get back into work right away. Sometimes it’s been fortunate. One time I had to wait for five months. At the same time, I was pumped up to get another job. I love the game. I love the people involved in the game. There’s no place I’d rather be than a hockey arena. I just know that’s me.

Register: Do you have any ill feelings over the Ducks firing you?

Boudreau: I feel I worked really hard. I can leave Anaheim knowing that I did what I thought I could do. I learned a lot here. I didn’t realize sometimes on the details of the game before I got to Anaheim, how much I didn’t really know. In the five years here, I learned so much about coaching and so much about the game itself that I know I’m a much better coach than when I first got here. I will have no ill will towards anybody. Bob gave me a chance a day after I got fired in Washington. Without an interview. Just basically saying do you want to coach here. What an opportunity he gave me. I think in kind that I have paid him back in kind. We won four division championships in taking over a last-place club. I think it worked out great for both of us. We didn’t win the ultimate goal, the Stanley Cup. But two of the Game 7 losses were against the Stanley Cup champions. If we had won those games, I think we would have probably had a chance of winning the Stanley Cup.

Register: Bob seemed more upset that his players failing to come through made him fire you. Did you fail your players at all or do you share his thought?

Boudreau: I don’t think I was the problem. He made a move and I think it was the right move. I would have loved to have worked here for 100 years but that’s beside the point. It’s a tough responsibility for a GM. You can’t trade 22 players or 23 players. Maybe somebody else can get a little bit more out of them than I did and I don’t think you need to get a lot more out of them to have a championship team here.