Bruce Cassidy: Golden Knights hire former Bruins coach
LAS VEGAS –
Bruce Cassidy wasn’t out of a job for lengthy after being employed to teach the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday, little greater than per week after being fired by the Boston Bruins.
Cassidy turns into the Golden Knights’ third coach and replaces Peter DeBoer, who was fired after Vegas missed the playoffs for the primary time in its five-year historical past.
“I’m excited to affix a company that shares my dedication to successful and may’t wait to get to work with the expertise that has been assembled in Vegas,” Cassidy stated in a press release. “It has been spectacular to look at town embrace the Golden Knights from afar, and my household and I look ahead to turning into part of that.”
Cassidy, 57, had a 245-108-46 report and led the Bruins to 6 straight playoff appearances after changing Claude Julien within the ultimate months of the 2016-17 marketing campaign. He was fired on June 6, a month after the Bruins misplaced a seven-game first-round collection to Carolina.
Vegas turns into Cassidy’s third cease as a head coach after a two-year stint with Washington (2002-04), the place the Ottawa native labored beneath Knights president of hockey operations George McPhee, who was the final supervisor on the time. Cassidy coached the Capitals to a playoff look in his first season after compiling a report of 39-29-8 throughout the 2002-03 common season.
Cassidy boasts an general report of 292-155-53, accompanied by 38 post-season victories. His most profitable marketing campaign was in 2018-19, when the Bruins reached the Stanley Cup Closing, the place they misplaced to St. Louis in seven video games. Cassidy led Boston to the perfect report within the NHL (44-14-12) the next season, when he received the Jack Adams Award as the highest coach in 2019-20.
Cassidy goes from teaching a veteran-laden group in transition in Boston to teaching one of the crucial gifted rosters within the league.
“The Golden Knights are more than happy to have Bruce are available in to teach our group,” normal supervisor Kelly McCrimmon stated in a press release. “His success in Boston over six years is extraordinarily spectacular. His groups have had a transparent id, having been among the many best within the NHL by way of objectives for, objectives towards, purpose differential and particular groups. That is the precise coach for our group right now.”
DeBoer was 98-50-12 in three seasons with the Golden Knights and led them to back-to-back semifinal appearances his first two seasons, however was let go Might 16 after they missed the playoffs for the primary time in franchise historical past this season.
Cassidy inherits a group that was pegged as the most effective within the Western Convention previous to final season, however underachieved and collapsed down the stretch partially as a consequence of a collection of accidents. Per NHLInjuryViz.com, the Golden Knights completed with the second-highest man-games misplaced with 505.
However, in charge of its future with 5 video games left within the season, Vegas misplaced three straight shootouts down the stretch to fall out of rivalry. They misplaced 5 of their final seven and went 0-2-3 towards the final 5 non-playoff groups they confronted.
