{"id":680672,"date":"2026-05-19T23:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/680672\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T23:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:33:07","slug":"latest-on-golden-knights-bruce-cassidy-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/680672\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest On Golden Knights, Bruce Cassidy \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 19th:\u00a0The NHL Coaches\u2019 Association (NHLCA) is posturing to involve itself in the repeated instances of the Golden Knights blocking Cassidy from interviewing with the Kings and Oilers. According to a public announcement<\/a>, the NHLCA said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NHLCA has been closely monitoring the situation involving Bruce Cassidy. While we respect the League\u2019s rules and processes, it is our position that coaches who remain under contract, but are no longer working for their Club, should not be prevented from pursuing other employment opportunities. It would be unprecedented at the head coaching level should multiple teams be denied permission to speak with Coach Cassidy. The situation is still unfolding, but our priority is to protect the interests of our members in this type of circumstance.\u201c<\/p>\n

Although their frustration is understandable, it\u2019s unclear what the NHLCA would do to assist Cassidy. As was previously noted, coaches are often \u201crelieved of duties\u201d rather than \u201cfired\u201d, making them still subject to the obligations outlined in their contract.<\/p>\n

May 18th: Despite firing him with eight games remaining in the regular season, the Vegas Golden Knights are playing hardball with Bruce Cassidy<\/a>\u2018s future. Earlier today, TSN\u2019s Pierre LeBrun reported<\/a> that the Golden Knights haven\u2019t given any team permission to interview Cassidy for head coaching vacancies.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Andy Strickland of FanDuel Sports Network<\/a> went a step further, indicating that the Golden Knights blocked the Los Angeles Kings from interviewing the former Jack Adams<\/a> Award winner. However, that hasn\u2019t been confirmed elsewhere. Still, it wouldn\u2019t be surprising if they did, if they haven\u2019t already, given that Vegas blocked<\/a> the Edmonton Oilers from interviewing their former head coach just a few days ago.<\/p>\n

Unless another head coach is fired in the next few weeks, that leaves the Toronto Maple Leafs as the only option left for Cassidy. However, on Friday\u2019s rendition of 32 Thoughts<\/a>, Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman said, \u201cI do think they\u2019ll reach out to talk to Cassidy, but I\u2019d say it\u2019s extremely unlikely he\u2019s gonna end up being the guy in Toronto, and I do think they are prepared to go fresh. \u200aSomeone new, someone different.\u201d<\/p>\n

As unfair as it seems to Cassidy, those are the rules of the coach\u2019s contractual obligations. Although it\u2019s essentially a firing, coaches are often \u201crelieved of duties\u201d, rather than outright fired. This means they are still bound by the contract they signed and continue to receive payment from the team that released them. So, until Cassidy\u2019s contract with the Golden Knights formally ends, any team wishing to interview him will have to put in a formal request.<\/p>\n

There remains plenty of speculation regarding the Kings and Maple Leafs, but it does seem the Oilers have moved on from their pursuit of Cassidy. Earlier today, it was confirmed<\/a> that Edmonton received permission from Toronto to interview Craig Berube<\/a>, and he appears to be the early favorite for the role.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, if Vegas is going to continue to block their intradivisional rivals from hiring Cassidy, he\u2019ll have to wait for another shoe to drop for his next landing spot. Although it\u2019s hardly appropriate to speculate on someone losing their job, Andrew Brunette<\/a> of the Nashville Predators and Sheldon Keefe<\/a> of the New Jersey Devils may be looking for new roles this summer, given that each team will be under new management in the front office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 19th:\u00a0The NHL Coaches\u2019 Association (NHLCA) is posturing to involve itself in the repeated instances of the Golden…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[237386,49,48,82,767],"class_list":["post-680672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bruce-cassidy","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}