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Re: Vegas Kniggits fire Cassidy, hire Tortorella [message #851185 is a reply to message #851184 ]	Sun, 29 March 2026 17:21

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Skookum Jim wrote on Sun, 29 March 2026 16:57

Kr55 wrote on Sun, 29 March 2026 15:32

oilfan94 wrote on Sun, 29 March 2026 16:22

I feel like this may actually give them a decent boost. I was kind of hoping for us to make this kind of change a couple weeks ago.

Yeah. This may not be good Jews for us. Vegas not ignoring the players tuning the coach out. Doesn’t matter if they won a cup with him. If the players are tuning the coach out, that’s it. Almost every NHL has a shelf life except Cooper these days.

We just gave a new 3 year deal to our coach that may be tuned out. Better recent play and Coffey return might be an excuse to keep sitting on our hands with Knob

Vegas's problem isn't coaching.. its a slower team.. and they just added Anderson who is a pending boat anchor contract (fingers crossed!!) ..

I can't see Torts changing anything that makes Vegas meaningfully better in EIGHT (8) games.. but I hope he gets a long term contract though.. him and Anderson can age together like rancid cheese 🤞🏻🙂

I haven't' looked at Vegas closely for a while. Seeing now that they have had even worse goaltending than us this year. But almost all their analytics are near top in the league. 5th in xGF, 3rd in high danger chances. Their PDO is 2nd last because of sav%.

Kind of hilarious actually, they may have fired a good coach that just needed a goalie, and replaced him with an a-hole that will probably need to be fired in the next 1-2 years too after he pisses off the whole team. You can never discount a short term coach bump though, we will have to see.

For us, I'm shocked to see we have actually climbed back to top 10 in the league in xGF%. We have been playing pretty well lately. Unfortunately we doubled down on Dustin Schwartz products, so our PDO this year is forever hampered by Schwartz goalie suckage. Thank goodness for Ingram though, at least giving the team a shot in the last few months to show some of what is possible.

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Vegas Kniggits fire Cassidy, hire Tortorella	By: welcometotheOC on Sun, 29 March 2026 15:33
Re: Vegas Kniggits fire Cassidy, hire Tortorella	By: oilfan94 on Sun, 29 March 2026 16:22
Re: Vegas Kniggits fire Cassidy, hire Tortorella	By: Kr55 on Sun, 29 March 2026 16:32
Re: Vegas Kniggits fire Cassidy, hire Tortorella	By: Skookum Jim on Sun, 29 March 2026 16:57
Re: Vegas Kniggits fire Cassidy, hire Tortorella	By: Kr55 on Sun, 29 March 2026 17:21
Re: Vegas Kniggits fire Cassidy, hire Tortorella	By: smyth260 on Sun, 29 March 2026 18:26
Re: Vegas Kniggits fire Cassidy, hire Tortorella	By: Skookum Jim on Sun, 29 March 2026 21:20
Re: Vegas Kniggits fire Cassidy, hire Tortorella	By: CrusaderPi on Mon, 30 March 2026 12:06
Re: Vegas Kniggits fire Cassidy, hire Tortorella	By: Skookum Jim on Mon, 30 March 2026 13:39
Re: Vegas Kniggits fire Cassidy, hire Tortorella	By: Dragon_Matt on Mon, 30 March 2026 14:07
Re: Vegas Kniggits fire Cassidy, hire Tortorella	By: Skookum Jim on Mon, 30 March 2026 23:15

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