Vancouver Canucks Fire Coach Alain Vigneault

After seven years of coaching the Canucks, Coach Alain Vigneault is fired by General Manager Mike Gillis. It came quick last with outstanding accomplishments such as leading the Canucks to the seventh game of the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 2011 against the Boston Bruins, as well as taking the Canucks to a first-round playoff sweep of the St. Louis Blues in 2009, and Winning the President's Trophy Cup in April 2011 for the franchise record of 54 win,s and 117 points, just to name a few coach Alain Vigneault has been fired this year after first-round knockout.

Vigneault had this to say; 

"Over the past seven years, I have made many good friends in Vancouver and had the chance to coach quality players who cared deeply about their profession and were committed to winning. I am grateful to the players and their families for the sacrifice and dedication they showed in an effort to be the best they could be. Watching as many of our players started families, became fathers and grew as men, on and off of the ice, was equally rewarding."

Vancouver's General Manager and president fired Vigneault early Wednesday morning along with assistant managers Rick Bowness and Newell Brown. 

The Canucks have slipped this year and it seems too big a slip for Gillis. In the previous three seasons the Canucks ranked in top five in points, but this year 19th. The points just aren't there.

After bringing the Canucks to game seven of the finals in 2011 on home ice, Vigneault just seemed to miss the mark with this year's playoffs. 

In the team's offensive play the Sedins were, put frankly, weak. In previous years the Sedins were beacons of hope to the team and Canucks as well

As the Canucks spend the summer in retrieve, Rogers General Manager Mike Gillis will be spending the next few months making trades within the confines of the leagues rapidly declining money supply which gives the team little room for getting themselves in better shape (both mentally and physically), for the next years playoffs. 

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http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/hockey/vancouver-canucks/Vancouver+Canucks+didn+results+expected/8421466/story.html