The story ends, ironically enough, with Alain Vigneault finally walking down a road of self reflection. The predictable part was that he wasn’t asked about it.
We won’t start there, though, because that’s how this story ends. Or maybe more appropriately, how the current story begins.
When Tom Renney was hired, he was brought in to right the ship. There were no real Stanley Cup aspirations, and the only real goal was to make the playoffs — which he did. Did he squander Petr Prucha in a way that would have made a certain unnamed future coach proud?