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Rangers coach Alain Vigneault pushes right buttons, but not the panic button in Game 4

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Mark Herrmann

Herrmann has covered the Mets and Yankees since 1988, and has been Newsday’s national golf writer since 2002. Show More

Alain Vigneault knows the first two rules of coaching: If the team wins, the players have done wonderfully. If the team loses, it is all the coach’s fault. So be it. That is part of the job. He is not the type to opine about that, or about much of anything else.

Before the series, Senators coach Guy Boucher spoke of the “soul” of his team. On the Rangers side, Vigneault would be more likely to talk about the sole of his shoe.