Alain Vigneault sounded devastated on Monday — a lot more distressed, frankly, than many of his players on the Rangers. He spoke about being in “the midst of emotion, still trying to sort out what happened, why it happened.” He talked about how his 22-year-old daughter, Janie, couldn’t stop crying, how his whole family was impacted by the seven-game defeat to Tampa.
“The goal was the Stanley Cup,” Vigneault said, up at the team’s practice facility in Greenburgh. “There were so many positive things from within this group. (But) if you’re looking at it strictly that we didn’t get to the final, we didn’t.