{"id":709550,"date":"2026-06-02T07:29:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/709550\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T07:29:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:29:46","slug":"vancouver-goldeneyes-fire-head-coach-brian-idalski-after-inaugural-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/709550\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Goldeneyes fire head coach Brian Idalski after inaugural season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wpRssService\/imageRedirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmapi.cp.org%2Fasset-photos%2F0f215c8e-9e3f-4cbe-9976-04bf14ccb1e0%2F3ea2faf879bbe9b5f4bdc7095d30c64cf6edc75e80382914db5fcf36ca92cd14.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Goldeneyes head coach Brian Idalski listens during the PWHL hockey team&#8217;s end of season news conference, in Vancouver, on Monday, April 27, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Darryl Dyck<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJun 1, 2026 | 8:21 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER \u2014 The Vancouver Goldeneyes have dismissed head coach Brian Idalski after the team\u2019s first season. <\/p>\n<p>General manager Cara Gardner Morey announced the move Monday, saying in a statement that Idalski faced \u201cunique challenges and opportunities\u201d in his role. <\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old American came to Vancouver following a long career coaching NCAA women\u2019s hockey, and previously served as head coach of the Shenzhen Kunlun Red Star in Russia\u2019s Zhenskaya Hockey League.<\/p>\n<p>The Goldeneyes finished their inaugural season with a 9-3-4-14 record and missed the playoffs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vancouver Goldeneyes head coach Brian Idalski listens during the PWHL hockey team&#8217;s end of season news conference, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-709550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709550","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=709550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}