Alain Vigneault
Alain Vigneault
Alain Vigneaultis a Canadian professional ice hockey head coach with the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League. Vigneault has previously coached the Montreal Canadiens and the Vancouver Canucks in the NHL, as well as in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. During his career with the Canucks, he won the Jack Adams Award as the NHL's top coach of the year in 2006–07 and has become the team's record holder for wins as a coach. Under Vigneault, Vancouver...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth14 May 1961
CityQuebec City, Canada
bigger challenge coming hardest league physical score supposed teams
We're going to see probably one of the hardest (working), most physical teams in the league coming in. They don't score a lot of goals, but they play hard. A lot of times, they don't even want to play the puck, they just want to play the man. It's Calgary, in-your-face, finish-checks hockey. It's going to be a big challenge for us and the bigger the challenge, the bigger we're supposed to respond.
hockey nhl luck
We're trying to work on Sami to get through that and shoot the puck. MacInnis shot the puck all the time. If there was a fool who wanted to stand in front and break an ankle, tough luck.
attitude real hockey
We brought him [Raffi Torres] in because he was an emotional, physical player. He's had nothing but a great attitude and a great work ethic with us all year long. He comes to play, prepares himself real well. We need him to play the way he does. You know, he's a little bit sometimes outside the box, but you've got to let him be who he is.
player nhl cities
I played with Joey Mullen back in Salt Lake City before he got called up to St. Louis. He was the first player ever to score 20 goals in the American League and 20 in the NHL. I've kept in contact with him and he's a great guy.
hockey guy half
Guys, I don't want to tell you half-truths, unless they're completely accurate.
hockey ice play
You can't control the opposition, but you can control how you play, your energy level, your intensity on the ice. That's what we're going to do.
teams
We've already made the decision. Most teams put five, but we're going to put six.
beat confidence gave gotten hard roll since team work
We're in for a grind, since they've beat us they've really gotten on a roll here. I don't know if we gave them confidence or whatever. We know what we're up against. Hard work is their team identity.
attack christmas couple everybody heart last side stands together weeks year
We always got together on my mom's side and I was about six-years-old. It was the last year my grandfather on my mother's side was alive. Everybody got together and he had a heart attack a couple weeks later. That last Christmas with him just stands out in my mind.
scores three wins
Three wins by 1-0 scores -- obviously, our goaltending has been solid.
couple focus good next
When you win, you feel good about yourselves. That's what the focus is going to be on these next couple games.
improvement played situation urgency
We played with the urgency and desperation that the situation demanded. We scored two and that was an improvement for us.
certain checks decisions finishing gritty played skill took
We played where we wanted to play and took a lot of their skill away by making the right decisions and finishing checks and being gritty in certain areas.
definitely found legs lost period played second strong sure won
We played a really strong first period and it was 0-0. I don't know if we lost our legs because we definitely found them in the third. I'm not sure what it was. They outplayed us in the second period and that's where they won the game.