Teams Need Vegas’ Blessing To Talk To Bruce Cassidy

The coaching game keeps getting more interesting because nobody seems willing to move without checking with Vegas first. That tells you two things: Cassidy still has real value around the league, and the Golden Knights are not making this easy for anyone trying to pry loose a sitting coach. With the Stanley Cup playoffs still in focus, the polite version of the message is that nothing is happening yet, and the less polite version is that everyone is waiting on the same bottleneck.