Bruce Cassidy on verge of coaching Vegas Golden Knights to Stanley Cup -
Instead, Cassidy paid his dues, first as an assistant in Chicago, then coaching Kingston in the Ontario Hockey League. He returned to the pros as an assistant with the American Hockey League’s Providence Bruins, was promoted to head coach and got back in the NHL on Claude Julien’s staff in Boston by 2016.
Cassidy was a midseason replacement for Julien early in 2017 and coached the Bruins to the playoffs six seasons in a row before a first-round exit last year prompted Boston to let him go. When the Golden Knights wanted a coach with winning experience, they hired Cassidy. With their new coach, the Golden Knights won 13 of their first 15 games and finished atop the Western Conference despite goaltending injuries and other adversity that might have knocked them off course - like it did last season, prompting Peter DeBoer’s firing as coach.
Vegas cruised through the first two rounds of the playoffs, beating Winnipeg in five games and getting past Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl and Edmonton to reach the West final. That is perhaps where his best coaching of the year came the night before Game 6 against Dallas. The Golden Knights, once up 3-0, had lost two in a row and were on the brink of falling apart.“It was kind of like, ‘All right, that’s enough, let’s close this out,’” center Chandler Stephenson recalled.
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