PWH Morning Skate: Cassidy, Golden Knights Make Sweet History With Vegas Cup Win
After a tough ending in Boston, Bruce Cassidy capped off a redemptive run in Vegas by leading the Golden Knights to their first Stanley Cup
Credit where it’s due to Vegas Golden Knights head coach and Stanley Cup champion Bruce Cassidy.
The longtime Boston Bruins coach celebrated his one-year anniversary of getting fired by the Bruins organization by coaching Vegas in the Cup Final and observed his one-year anniversary of being hired by the Golden Knights by guiding them to a crushing Game 5 win over the Florida Panthers to clinch Lord Stanley’s Cup.
Certainly, it was a sweet, sweet redemptive moment for a coach that spent over 10 years paying his dues in the AHL to get a second chance at NHL coaching in Boston after getting fired from his first gig coaching the Washington Capitals as a relatively young man.
After coming within one game of winning the Cup with Boston in 2019, Cassidy sounded like a guy that had achieved a lifelong pursuit in the moments after he hoisted the Cup and celebrated a coaching career where he’s paid his dues, silenced doubters along the way and learned countless lessons leading up to this season’s epic run from an experienced, talented and hungry Vegas group.
Certainly, he learned lessons in Boston as he spoke about earlier this postseason after driving his players hard with the Bruins after getting them painfully close to a Game 7 against the St. Louis Blues in 2019.