Vegas Knights Fire Cassidy, Hire Tortorella

0:00It's March 30th. Welcome in. This is NHL News today, where your team meets AI, I'm Corey, with the story. Vegas Golden Knights just dropped a bombshell, firing head coach Bruce Cassidy with only eight games left in the regular season. They replaced him with veteran John Torturella, and the team sits third in the Pacific Division, still eyeing the playoffs. Cassidy brought them a Stanley Cup in his first year, back in 2023, but recent struggles sealed his fate. Through 74 games, Vegas holds a 32 win, 26 loss, 16 overtime record, and they've dropped four of their last five. Getting out scored 16 to five. This marks the fourth coaching change for the Knights, since their expansion in 2017, showing they don't mess around with standards even, late in the year. Torturella, a 67-year-old with a 1,620 games coached, wanted all with Tampa Bay in 2004, and just left, Philly in March.

1:00Now Cassidy's the hottest free agent coach out there, with a 0.630 winning percentage and four seasons of over 50 wins. Meanwhile, Emmington's Leon Draisato called out his own coaches before the Olympic break, as the Oilers cling to a playoff spot in a soft Pacific. Torturella steps in, aiming to spark that fire for the stretch run, while the league watches how these bold moves shake out come postseason.