Nearly five hours after their regular season finale against the Philadelphia Flyers, the New York Rangers will be searching for a new face behind the bench. According to an official team release, Jeff Gorton has finally pulled the band-aid off and relieved Alain Vigneault of his coaching duties. This has been a long-time coming, and with the Rangers committing to a rebuild at this year’s trade deadline, the writing seemed to be on the wall for Vigneault
That isn’t to say Vigneault is a bad coach either, but he quickly fell out favor with this newly discovered direction by the Rangers.