Like all great tenors, his voice has aged beautifully. Though limited in range, it remains keen and rich, on tone and distinct.
It could fill The Met in New York, but fills Madison Square Garden instead. It could fill most of the Eastern seaboard. Alain Vigneault still has his chops. For coaching, too.
“He’s exactly the same,” winger Tanner Glass said of Vigneault, who coaches him with the New York Rangers after coaching him with the Vancouver Canucks five years ago. “You can hear him. He yells the same things: ‘Speed! Change! Deep!’ You can’t help but hear him.