But their Pacific Division rival appears to have a say in the matter.<\/p>\n
The Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> withheld permission for the Edmonton Oilers to interview former head coach Bruce Cassidy, NHL insider Frank Seravalli reported<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Cassidy was shockingly fired by the Golden Knights in late March, just weeks before the playoffs, and replaced by John Tortorella.<\/p>\n Vegas is now tied 2-2 in its second-round series with the Anaheim Ducks, who eliminated the Oilers in six games in the first round.<\/p>\n The loss left Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch on the hot seat despite reaching the Stanley Cup Final in each of his first two seasons at the helm.<\/p>\n Cassidy, a 60-year-old Ottawa native, led the Golden Knights\u00a0to the Cup in 2023. He was the longest-tenured coach in Vegas history, going 178-99-43 over four seasons.<\/p>\n “I would’ve liked to see it through… We’d won once before, so we knew what it looked like to win,” Cassidy said in April. “We were a first or second-place team most of the year \u2014 I felt we would’ve got in (to playoffs). I don’t know where we would’ve finished at the end, that’s speculation, but yes, I would’ve loved to have had the opportunity. But didn’t work out that way, so you start thinking about your next challenge.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But their Pacific Division rival appears to have a say in the matter. The Vegas Golden Knights withheld…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-638852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}