Golden Knights Hire Former Bruins Coach Bruce Cassidy
Jun 14, 2022, 4:44 PM
Head coach Bruce Cassidy of the Boston Bruins speaks to the media following his teams 3-2 overtime loss to the St. Louis Blues in Game Two of the 2019 NHL Stanley Cup Final at TD Garden on May 29, 2019 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Adam Glanzman/Getty Images)
(Photo by Adam Glanzman/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Bruce Cassidy wasn’t out of a job for long after being hired to coach the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday, little more than a week after being fired by the Boston Bruins.
Cassidy becomes the Golden Knights’ third coach and replaces Peter DeBoer, who was fired after Vegas missed the playoffs for the first time in its five-year history.
🚨 COACHING UPDATE 🚨
Bruce Cassidy has been hired as the Head Coach of the Vegas Golden Knights! #VegasBorn pic.twitter.com/MyOUQLzMoj
— Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) June 14, 2022
Cassidy had a 245-108-46 record and had the Bruins qualify for the playoffs in each of his five-plus seasons after replacing Claude Julien in the final months of the 2016-17 campaign. He was fired on June 6, a month after the Bruins lost a seven-game first-round series to Carolina.
His most successful season was in 2018-19, when the Bruins reached the Stanley Cup Final, where they lost to St. Louis in seven games.
BREAKING: The @GoldenKnights have fired head coach Peter DeBoer after Vegas missed the playoffs for the first time in franchise history. 🏒#VegasBorn #NHL https://t.co/Bmwt2AYPkb
— KSL Sports (@kslsports) May 16, 2022
Vegas becomes Cassidy’s third stop as a head coach after a two-year stint with Washington from 2002-04.
