Breaking: Alain Vigneault gets interview with NHL team!

We have been patiently waiting to see if any NHL team looking for a new head coach would take the opportunity to sign Alain Vigneault as their new bench leader, and we might be getting much closer. 

Vigneault was dismissed by the New York Rangers last April, after his team failed to clinch a playoff spot and announced it would start a rebuilding phase in the Big Apple. The Rangers are still paying him $4.1 million as he has one more year left to his contract, however, Vigneault has found work. 

On Friday night, Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman reported that the Philadelphia Flyers have gotten permission from the Rangers to speak with Vigneault about the possibility of taking the job behind the bench in Philly. 

Back in November, newly appointed GM Chuck Fletcher fired coach Dave Hakstol and gave minor league coach Scott Gordon the interim label. The latter remains among the candidates as he has grown close to the players. The Florida Panthers took one of the top candidates off the market when they hired Joel Quenneville back on Monday. 

It was just recently announced that Vigneault is the head coach of Team Canada at the upcoming World Hockey Championships in Slovakia. He joins the trio of Jason Botteril, Ron Hextall and Ron Francis, who were named to Canada's management team for the tournament, which takes place May 10-26.

Vigneault took the Rangers to the Stanley Cup Final in his first season in 2014, where they lost in five games to the Los Angeles Kings. He then guided the Rangers to the Presidents' Trophy in 2015 before falling to the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference final. 

He finished his time with the Rangers at 226-147-37. Overall, he is 648-435-35-98 over parts of 16 seasons that includes stops with the Vancouver Canucks — where he won the Presidents' Trophy twice and went to the 2011 Stanley Cup Final — and Montreal Canadiens.

Let see if he ends up in Philly.