"Craig MacTavish is taking the head coaching job in Chicago, confirmed by a TSN report today, and it isn't to be an AHL coach for long.

Obviously, like the many former coaches-turned-broadcast analysts before him, he's out to make a comeback to the big leagues. MacT led the Oilers to the Stanley Cup final in 2006, but has been out of coaching for the past two years. He went to TSN and right now is back in a place, running a Canucks affiliate, which four previous coaches have used as their final pipeline to be a head coach in the NHL.

And that's where MacTavish wants to be. The move to Chicago just shows he's not going to sit around and wait for the right situation to open up to him.

So, the big question is Vancouver is just how much pressure does this put on Alain Vigneault to have the experienced MacTavish in the organization?"