The Golden Knights fired Bruce Cassidy on Sunday and turned to John Tortorella to replace him.
fired Bruce Cassidy on Sunday and replaced him with John Tortorella, a move they hope sparks a playoff run with eight games left in the regular season.But Vegas has struggled late this season, losing its past three games and six of its past seven.
It entered Sunday third in the Pacific Division, six points behind the first-place Now, the Golden Knights will turn to Tortorella in pursuit of another title through the challenging Western Conference. His contract with the team is through this season, sources told ESPN's Emily Kaplan."We thank Bruce Cassidy for his dedication to our hockey club and community over the past four seasons," general manager Kelly McCrimmon said in a statement."Under Bruce's leadership, we reached our ultimate goal in 2023 by bringing a Stanley Cup to Vegas. Bruce will forever be remembered with the utmost regard by our organization for what we accomplished here. "With the stretch turn of the 2025-26 regular season upon us, we believe that a change is necessary to return to the level of play that is expected of our club." A franchise that has been defined by its win-at-all-costs approach largely has struggled to do just that for the past two months. The Golden Knights followed a seven-game winning streak in mid-January with losses in seven of their next eight games. After a three-game winning streak around the Olympic break, they lost six of seven games. And now their current slump cost Cassidy, who has the most wins by a coach in Golden Knights history, his job.Cassidy's time with the Golden Knights saw them turn into one of the stronger defensive teams based on underlying metrics. They entered Sunday allowing the fewest shots and the fewest high-danger chances per 60 minutes, and they were in the top 10 in fewest scoring chances allowed per 60, according to Natural Stat Trick. But one issue that has plagued them is their goaltending. Vegas has the lowest team save percentage in 5-on-5 play at 88.45%, according to Natural Stat Trick. This is not the first time Tortorella, who has won 770 career games, will be charged with trying to turn around a team's season. He was an in-season hire when he took over thehired him in the 2008-09 season with 21 games left, and he guided the club to the quarterfinal round of the playoffs. He'll now be tasked, in a limited window of games, with finding the solutions that can allow the Golden Knights to pose a challenge in a Western Conference landscape that could see five teams from the Central Division make the playoffs, a group that includes three of the NHL's top six teams in points ( "With John Tortorella, we bring in a Stanley Cup champion as well as one of the most experienced and respected coaches in the NHL," McCrimmon said."His guidance will be a great asset to our team at the pivotal point in the season we currently face."
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