Alain Vigneault

Like the U2 song, Vancouver Canucks head coach Alain Vigneault still hasn't found what he's looking for, specifically in his bottom-six forward group. He's tried Cody Hodgson at centre on the third line. He's tried Manny Malhotra at left wing on ...  

Like the U2 song, Vancouver Canucks head coach Alain Vigneault still hasn't found what he's looking for, specifically in his bottom-six forward group. He's tried Cody Hodgson at centre on the third line. He's tried Manny Malhotra at left wing on the fourth line.  

Vancouver Canucks defenseman Keith Ballard will miss his third consecutive game tonight with an injury that isn’t totally clear to his team, according to NHL.com’s Kevin Woodley. Alain Vigneault said that the Canucks aren’t sure if it’s ...  

CALGARY – The Vancouver Canucks' game is coming back. And soon they hope winger Chris Higgins will, too. Canuck coach Alain Vigneault said after Saturday's 3-2 shootout loss to the Calgary Flames that Higgins, the hard-working second-line forward who has ...  

Ed Willes defends Alain Vigneault in this column published a few days ago, an action that any reasonable person would surely see as unnecessary. That it is both necessary and timely reflects more on the expectations in a crazy market than the qualities he actually brings to his work. There persists, in some corners of [...]  

ST. PAUL, Minn. - The Vancouver Canucks say Henrik Sedin has no broken bones in his right foot. Head coach Alain Vigneault said before Thursday night's game at Minnesota that a CT scan came back clean. Sedin took part in the morning skate ...  

Lapierre's bout with Cal Clutterbuck during Thursday's 5-2 win against the Minnesota Wild was the Canuck's seventh fighting major this season and fourth since Vancouver coach Alain Vigneault said after a New Year's Eve loss in Los Angeles that ...  

Cory Schneider will get his fourth straight start in the Xcel Energy Center. Head coach Alain Vigneault said it's just Schneider's time to play, dismissing the idea he's trying to avoid Luongo confronting his personal house of horrors. Boston, you got ...  

Alain Vigneault has since suffered from Sedin separation anxiety, always saying he believes they are better together. But the coach got over it long enough Tuesday to tear down his lineup and rebuild it with a flair for the odd, including his decision to ...  

Canucks head coach Alain Vigneault believes the Sedins are better together. He's said it regularly and reiterated it Tuesday. That was just after he split them up. Again. Vigneault called what he did to his lineup tinkering. If that's tinkering ...  

Funny how that works. Just three weeks ago, Kesler was getting the woodshed treatment for his poor play and an even poorer response when head coach Alain Vigneault lightly prodded him. But here Kesler is now, coping with the raw emotion churning since his ...  

Defensively, they are being outplayed for long stretches of games. As coach Alain Vigneault noted, they should thank their lucky stars that goaltenders Roberto Luongo and Cory Schneider are playing well. The Canucks were outshot 46-29 by the Avs.  

Pavel Datsyuk and Jiri Hudler scored in the shootout to give the Wings the win. Alex Edler and Mason Raymond failed to score on their shootout attempts. Things were so bad through the first two periods that coach Alain Vigneault split up the Sedin twins ...  

The latest stir stems from head coach Alain Vigneault's decision to start backup Cory Schneider for heavyweight tilts against the Boston Bruins, and more recently, the Chicago Blackhawks, as opposed to starter Roberto Luongo. The January 7 game in Boston ...  

It has to be one of the NHL's current top rivalries. The wounds may not run as deep as they do with the Boston Bruins, but there are way more scars. "How can it be more intense than it already is," said Canucks head coach Alain Vigneault on Monday ...