He led the Rangers to the Cup Final in his first season and bumped the win total by eight in his second. After a year out of coaching, Vigneault takes over a fallen Philadelphia Flyers franchise. “I was looking for was an opportunity to win; an opportunity in the short term to win a Stanley Cup,” Vigneault said Thursday. Indeed, Vigneault has done it all on the bench except win the Stanley Cup and he joins a franchise mired in one of the longest championship droughts in the league. The Flyers haven’t won it all since 1975 or even played for the Stanley Cup since 2010.

Source: National Post April 18, 2019 20:48 UTC