The New York Rangers have signed head coach Alain Vigneault to a contract extension, the team announced Tuesday.
While terms weren't revealed, the deal will keep him with the organization through 2019-20, according to Larry Brooks of the New York Post.
Source indicates Vigneault's new deal with Rangers worth average just north of $4 M per yr; puts him 3rd behind Babcock/Quenneville for $
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Vigneault, whose deal was set to expire at the end of next year, is expected to earn a pay increase on his current $2-million annual salary, Brooks noted.
He signed a five-year deal to coach New York after being fired by the Vancouver Canucks at the end of the 2012-13 season. The Rangers have won at least 45 games in each season under Vigneault, and are on pace to exceed 50 with the NHL's second-highest scoring attack.
Vigneault has led the Rangers into the postseason in each of his three completed campaigns. They lost in the Stanley Cup Final in 2014, the conference final in 2015, and were ousted in five games last season by the Pittsburgh Penguins.
He coached the Canucks to within a win of a championship in 2011, and has led his teams into the postseason in eight consecutive seasons.
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