Cause and Effect

[countryboy]

With my last post about cause and effect in the world of Rocket goaltending, I thought of something that's been in my head for a while...... keep in mind... cause and effect how one event leads to another.....

At the end of the 2004 season the Vancouver Canucks ownership, for some reason, though they've been on a successful run, decide not to renew the contract of their popular GM Brian Burke.

Burke, a hot commodity in the NHL gets picked up by the Ducks to fill their vacant GM position.

Though the Ducks are not far removed from a bearth in Stanley Cup Final (2003), due to differences in philosophies Burke decides to part ways with Ducks coach Mike Babcock, who takes over the open coaching job in Detroit.

Fast forward to fall 2005, after the lockout, Burke needs to hire a coach, so he turns to the guy he hired to coach Vancouver's farm team in Winnipeg (Manitoba Moose), Randy Carlyle.

With the vacancy in Winnipeg, the Cancuks need to hire a bench boss for their farm team and they hire the very qualified then coach of the PEI Rocked, Alain Vigneault, who is later promoted to the job in Vancouver and becomes the NHL coach of the year in his first season with the Canucks.

So, Vigneault needs to staff his team in Manitoba, so he hires Islander Mike Kelly, who at at the time is UPEI's head coach. Kelly has experience in major junior and with the Canada U20 team and would be a great fit to repalace Vigneault in the head job with the Rocket, except Vigneault takes him with him.

The opening at UPEI paves the way for the Panthers to hire Dylan Taylor as their head coach, who at the time was a Rocket assistant coach. Taylor at the time is a bright, upcoming coach with experience as a tean captain in both major junior and in the AUS.

So, if the Canucks hadn't inexplicably turfed Brian Burke in 2004, one could logically conclude the Vigneault might still be behind the Rocket bench. And, you go to further and assume that by this point in time, Savard would've trusted the GM reins to Vigneault as well with Vigneault in charge of hockey operations and Savard in charge of business operations.....

Maybe.... if you think about it....

cb

[Krang7]

Not a chance. Vigneault would have found a home in the NHL somewhere else by now. There's no way he'd still be here.

[countryboy]

krang7 said:

Not a chance. Vigneault would have found a home in the NHL somewhere else by now. There's no way he'd still be here.

I'll certainly agree with that.

cb

[SteveUL]

krang7 said:

Not a chance. Vigneault would have found a home in the NHL somewhere else by now. There's no way he'd still be here.

Based on his performance in PEI ?

[Krang7]

steveul said:

krang7 said:

Not a chance. Vigneault would have found a home in the NHL somewhere else by now. There's no way he'd still be here.

Based on his performance in PEI ?

Sure. But mostly based on his performance in MTL, his contacts within the league, his experience and the fact that he was a young, professional coach, and his junior time was basically just a stop gap.