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. 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 20th, 2006 Vigneault was hired to replace Marc Crawford as the Vancouver Canucks head coach.
| Preceded by: Mario Tremblay | Head Coaches of the Montreal Canadiens 1997-2000 | Succeeded by: Michel Therrien |
| Preceded by: Marc Crawford | Head Coaches of the Vancouver Canucks 2006–Current | Succeeded by: none |
| 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 • Statsiuk • McCreary • Maloney • Kurtenbach • Neale • Laforge • Watt • McCammon • Quinn • Ley • Renney • Keenan • Crawford • Vigneault |
| Current National Hockey League head coaches |
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| Babcock • Carbonneau • Carlyle • Crawford • Gretzky • Hanlon • Hartley • Hitchcock • Julien • Kitchen • Laviolette • Lemaire • Lewis • MacTavish • Martin • Maurice • Murray • Nolan • Playfair • Quenneville • Renney • Ruff • Savard • Stevens • Therrien • Tippett • Tortorella • Trotz • Vigneault • Wilson |
