Alain Vigneault
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Alain Vigneault (b. May 14, 1961 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian head coach of the National Hockey League Vancouver Canucks and the former head coach for the Montreal Canadiens. In the 1999-2000 season, he was a runner-up for the Jack Adams Award as NHL Coach of the Year. Alain also played for the St. Louis Blues. He has also coached junior hockey in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League for the Hull Olympiques, Beauport Harfangs, and the Prince Edward Island Rocket. He coached the American Hockey League Manitoba Moose for the 2005-06 season, leading the Moose to a 102 point season and 3rd place finish in the North Division and reaching the North Division Finals.
On June 20, 2006 Vigneault was hired to replace Marc Crawford as the Vancouver Canucks head coach.
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Goaltenders: Defensemen 2 Ohlund • 3 Bieksa • 4 Sopel • 5 Krajicek • 6 Salo • 8 Mitchell • 18 Fitzpatrick • 23 Edler Forwards 7 Morrison • 9 Pyatt • 14 Burrows • 16 Linden • 17 Kesler • 19 Naslund • 20 Cowan • 21 Smolinski • 22 D. Sedin • 24 Cooke • 25 Green • 26 Santala • 33 H. Sedin • 38 Bulis
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| Montreal Canadiens Head Coaches |
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| Laviolette • Lecours • Dorval • Gardner • Lalonde • Dandurand • Hart • Mantha • Dugal • Siebert • Lépine • Irvin • Blake • Ruel • MacNeil • Bowman • Geoffrion • Berry • Lemaire • Perron • Burns • Demers • Tremblay • Vigneault • Therrien • Julien • Gainey • Carbonneau |
| Vancouver Canucks Head Coaches |
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| Laycoe • Stasiuk • McCreary • Maloney • Kurtenbach • Neale • Neilson • Laforge • Watt • McCammon • Quinn • Ley • Renney • Keenan • Crawford • Vigneault |
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| Atlantic | Northeast | Southeast | |
| Julien (New Jersey) | Lewis (Boston) | Hartley (Atlanta) | |
| Nolan (NY Islanders) | Ruff (Buffalo) | Laviolette (Carolina) | |
| Renney (NY Rangers) | Carbonneau (Montreal) | Martin (Florida) | |
| Stevens (Philadelphia) | B. Murray (Ottawa) | Tortorella (Tampa Bay) | |
| Therrien (Pittsburgh) | Maurice (Toronto) | Hanlon (Washington) | |
| Western Conference | |||
| Central | Northwest | Pacific | |
| Savard (Chicago) | Playfair (Calgary) | Carlyle (Anaheim) | |
| Hitchcock (Columbus) | Quenneville (Colorado) | Tippett (Dallas) | |
| Babcock (Detroit) | MacTavish (Edmonton) | Crawford (Los Angeles) | |
| Trotz (Nashville) | Lemaire (Minnesota) | Gretzky (Phoenix) | |
| A. Murray (St. Louis) | Vigneault (Vancouver) | Wilson (San Jose) | |
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