Posts About "Alain Vigneault"
Flyers' Team of Head Coaches Proving Successful
March 11th, 2020 Just over three years ago, Michel Therrien was fired as head coach of the Montreal Canadiens for the second time. Fourteen months later, Alain Vigneault saw his tenure as head coach of the New York Rangers come to an end; and later that year, the St. Louis Blues abruptly relieved Mike Yeo of his head coaching duties. By April 2018 all...
Flyers’ Vigneault Plays Big Role in Team Turnaround
March 8th, 2020 The Philadelphia Flyers have recently won nine straight games, as they make a push for clinching a playoff spot and chasing the dream of winning their third Stanley Cup in the franchise’s history. At this time last year though, the organization was in a completely different situation. The team had just come off of the midseason...
Flyers Finally Flirting with NHL Awards
March 7th, 2020 The success of the Philadelphia Flyers this season is obvious and apparent. It's real, it's unavoidable, and frankly, it's a lot of fun to watch. There's a multitude of things behind the Flyers' newfound secret to success and they've all helped create one of the best Flyers teams we've seen in recent memory. Although the Flyers...
Fletcher Pushing the Right Buttons for Red-Hot Flyers
March 3rd, 2020 Since he was hired to replace Ron Hextall as general manager of the Philadelphia Flyers in Dec. 2018, Chuck Fletcher has had his work cut out for him to make his team contenders again. Philadelphia Flyers general manager Chuck Fletcher (Jose F. Morena/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP) Hextall had a vision to restock the cupboard...
Flyers’ Best 2019-20 Acquisition: Alain Vigneault
February 25th, 2020 The Philadelphia Flyers have surged up the standings and can now go toe to toe with the NHL’s top teams, all thanks to their best acquisition of the 2019-20 season: head coach Alain Vigneault. He has the Flyers gunning for a spot in the rugged Metropolitan Division, making sure the league hasn’t forgotten about the orange and...
Flyers Have Deep Experience Behind the Bench
January 26th, 2020 When an NHL team gets talked about and analyzed, the brunt of the attention goes to the players (for obvious reasons). If attention goes elsewhere, it is on the general manager or head coach. In the case of the Philadelphia Flyers, Alain Vigneault is the one mainly taking care of business as the head coach in his first season with...
