Los Angeles and Edmonton within the combine for Bruce Cassidy
In the course of the Could ninth version of TFP Hotstove on Sirius XM NHL Community Radio with Ryan Paton, Dennis Bernstein, and Dave Pagnotta, the query was raised about the place Bruce Cassidy will coach subsequent. Will or not it’s with the Los Angeles Kings, the Edmonton Oilers, or someplace else?
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Ryan Paton: “The Vegas Golden Knights. We talked about them, gents that they received final night time (Friday night time), 6-2 over the Anaheim Geese. Dave, their former coach, Bruce Cassidy, was with Vegas. John Tortorella got here on board late within the season. The remainder is historical past. Yada yada yada. Is Bruce going to get a job someplace else within the NHL? Dave, perhaps, solely will inform.”
Dave Pagnotta: “Effectively, he’s within the combine. It looks as if extra, at the very least, is into account internally with Edmonton, as we’ve identified, however that’s not the one potential suitor, because the Oilers should resolve what they need to do.
It’s an Essential Offseason for the Edmonton Oilers
A training change received’t simply repair all their issues. They obtained lots to do on the market in Edmonton, and it does sound like they’re going to discover quite a lot of totally different choices when it comes to who they’re going to maneuver out, who they’re going to strive to herald, and totally different holes they’re going to fill. The place was I going with that? I used to be going with Bruce Cassidy?”
Dennis Bernstein: “Bruce Cassidy”
Pagnotta: “Sure, probably, I obtained all caught up in all of the Oilers stick. However as they, as they attempt to determine all that stuff out, not the one potential suitor, as I discussed, for Bruce Cassidy, he’s within the combine in Los Angeles. The LA Kings are going to find out what they need to do. However I don’t know if he’s had a dialogue but, however I imagine he’ll if he hasn’t with LA for technically their emptiness, as a result of it’s an interim place for DJ Smith, who can also be going to be into account for that full-time gig.”
Paton: “What do you assume, Dennis?”
Bernstein: “Yeah, if they will afford him. Yeah, completely positive. Is he the very best accessible? Effectively, I don’t know. Who else is on the market? (Peter) Laviolette, (Gerard) Gallant, I don’t know who else. However yeah Bruce Cassidy in Los Angeles, positive, it’d be an improve. As a lot as they need to discuss how the staff carried out higher with DJ Smith, they usually did within the common season, however they performed a weaker schedule.
Have the Edmonton Oilers Gone within the Mistaken Path?
They’d a what .609 factors share, as a result of they made a degree to say that once they ended the season. However as everyone knows, their factors share within the playoffs was 0.00. So whereas DJ Smith was definitely within the combine, they usually did carry out higher, they usually have been a extra thrilling staff with him behind the bench, yeah, I imply, can his resume stack up towards Bruce Cassidy’s? It will probably’t.”
Pagnotta: “Yeah. Look, we’ll see what they find yourself doing. I feel we’re going to see, not simply from this potential scenario in LA, the potential change in Edmonton, there are different teaching, assistant teaching, administration/entrance workplace workers. Adjustments that we’re going to see over the following couple of months. Some individuals’s contracts are operating up and may not be returning.”
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