Vegas Fired Its Coach, and Somehow Ended Up in the Final

The Golden Knights made the kind of move that usually comes with a season obituary, not a Stanley Cup Final berth. Firing a coach with eight games left was supposed to be a desperation story, the sort of thing that screams damage control from the hallway outside the room. Instead, it has turned into one of those front-office case studies that gets dissected for years. Vegas now has a very different problem than the one it had in March, and that is a luxury almost nobody sees coming.