I have to say I love Vigneault. We just came off of too long a tenure under Hakstol who just clearly wasn't good enough. The roster did get a little better with Hayes and a couple other guys, but it isn't that different. Vigneault has been the biggest difference imo.
It's funny you said all this because that's exactly what happened with Berube with the flyers. A lot of fans lost their patience with him and were happy to see him gone. Full disclosure, myself included. Then he won the cup last year so he apparently was a better coach than people realized.
I've felt in the past the flyers were too quick to get rid of certain clearly good coaches though, like Ken Hitchcock and Peter Laviolette. So I hear ya.
He was night and day immediately for the Rangers, we went to the Cup his first year and back to the Conference finals his second year. They needed either one more scorer or for aging superstars Rick Nash and Martin St. Louis to step up just one more time, and they couldn't. They needed about 3-4 timely goals in that Finals against the Kings and it turns from a 5 game series loss to a 5 game series win for them. They lost 3 games in OT in that 4-1 series loss, including two in double overtime.
After that they got bounced early in the playoffs a few years, but they were already transitioning. Stepan got traded, Zibanejad hadn't really blossomed yet. Nash and MSL gone, no real scoring wingers to replace them. It was time to tear it down and AV did not show that he knew how to guide a team that was rebuilding to either get the most out of them while they rebuilt or that he had the correct teaching temperament to guide super young players.
But for a team of established young talent like the Flyers he's probably perfect, like he was for the Rangers in 2014.