{"id":543325,"date":"2026-04-06T05:36:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/543325\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T05:36:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:36:58","slug":"vegas-golden-knights-part-ways-with-head-coach-bruce-cassidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/543325\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Golden Knights part ways with head coach Bruce Cassidy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LAS VEGAS (<a href=\"http:\/\/fox5vegas.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"http:\/\/fox5vegas.com\/\">FOX5<\/a>) \u2014 The Vegas Golden Knights announced Sunday that Bruce Cassidy has been relieved of his duties and John Tortorella has been named the team\u2019s head coach, General Manager Kelly McCrimmon said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe thank Bruce Cassidy for his dedication to our hockey club and community over the past four seasons,\u201d McCrimmon said, noting the team won the Stanley Cup in 2023 under Cassidy. McCrimmon said the club believes \u201ca change is necessary\u201d with the stretch run of the 2025-26 regular season underway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tortorella, most recently the head coach of the Philadelphia Flyers (2022-25), has spent 23 seasons as an NHL head coach. He won the Stanley Cup with Tampa Bay in 2004 and has coached 1,620 NHL games, ranking sixth all-time, according to the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KVVU. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (FOX5) \u2014 The Vegas Golden Knights announced Sunday that Bruce Cassidy has been relieved of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5129],"tags":[149,5317,5,4,74,39,5316],"class_list":{"0":"post-543325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vegas-golden-knights","8":"tag-golden-knights","9":"tag-goldenknights","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-vegas","13":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","14":"tag-vegasgoldenknights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116356149784496038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}