Points principaux (dans l’ordre)
Cassidy a été très dur avec ses joueurs, et même pendant la saison de la Coupe 2023, il s’est battu avec certains de ses joueurs.
Il fait allusion au départ de certains de ses assistants parce qu’il est difficile de travailler avec lui. [Friedman doesn’t say a name but my immediate thought is Misha Donskov leaving for Dallas?]
Au cours de la saison 2024-25, Cassidy a tenu une réunion avec ses joueurs et certains joueurs ne l’ont pas pris avec gentillesse. Lors des entrevues de sortie après la défaite dans la série des Oilers, certains joueurs se sont plaints de cette rencontre, mais Kelly McCrimmon est resté fidèle à son entraîneur.
En ce qui concerne 2025-2026, les joueurs de Vegas ont ignoré Cassidy. Même si les chiffres sous-jacents donnent l’impression qu’il ne s’agit pas d’un problème de coaching, ils ne reçoivent clairement plus le message.
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UnhealthyCheesecake
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Wasn’t this an issue in Boston? i remember seeing on social media from bruins insiders and fans that the players had issues with him in this same regard.
Cassidy has a reputation for being a hard-ass who forces players to take accountability, and that rubs a lot of people the wrong way.
So what did we do? Hire a guy with an even worse reputation for the exact same problem.
I actually understand letting Cassidy go even though I’m not a fan of it. What I don’t understand is bringing in Tortorella as the replacement. Like, if the issue with Cassidy is he’s « difficult to work with, » how do you replace him with one of the only guys with an even bigger reputation for being difficult to work with?
Cassidy: « Play better »
Players: « Nah »
This is why sinbins take is so wrong, theres a lot more to coaching that just Xs and Os and if he lost the room it doesnt matter how good he at that part of coaching. I was hoping he had learned from what happened in Boston and Washington, I guess he didnt.
It’s amazing the lengths some people will go to, the players, to avoid accountability.
Fine. I get it. If the players are tuning him out hence the sloppy performance all season, then that makes sense.
But WHY TORTORELLA?? If these primadonnas thought Cassidy was a hard-ass, oh boy….
Really big fan turnout at practice today. Like weekend sized crowd. No Torts appearance.
I’m not even flabbergasted by the firing Cassidy part. Things aren’t working. Coach is usually the casualty, especially with this many elite players.
But there’s 8 games left, none of the problems we have weren’t here in January. Or February. Or beginning of March.
I have to think that morale would be better if they could get a save from their goalies now and then. League avg tending would probably have us in 1st easily.
But you can’t coach a goalie into making more saves so Cassidy has no choice but to get his skaters to make up the difference, and clearly they aren’t on board. Plenty of blame to be shared by everyone here, front office included.