The Vegas Golden Knights will not retain head coach John Tortorella for the 2026-27 season, the team announced. Vegas hired Tortorella after firing head coach Bruce Cassidy on March 29 with only eight games remaining.
It’s no secret that the Vegas Golden Knights aren’t exactly the most well-liked team in the NHL.
It was all going the way the Vegas Golden Knights wanted it to. Until it wasn’t. The Golden Knights played their best hockey of the year in the Western Conference Final when they inexplicably swept the Colorado Avalanche.
The NHL began awarding the Conn Smythe Trophy to the most valuable player of the postseason beginning in the 1965 season. How many of the past winners can you name in six minutes?
Golden Knights forward Mitch Marner was asked about the “dark times” comment he made after the team eliminated the Colorado Avalanche in the Western Conference Final.
There have been successful rookie seasons in NHL history, and there have been superior efforts worth celebrating time and time again. Here's our list of the 25 notable seasons from those with official rookie status, as deemed by the NHL, in reverse chronological order.
The Vegas Golden Knights will be going in a different direction behind the bench, but is it a surprise? It was announced on Tuesday that John Tortorella wouldn’t be returning as head coach of the Vegas Golden Knights.
John Tortorella’s short run with the Vegas Golden Knights is over. Golden Knights general manager Kelly McCrimmon announced Tuesday that Tortorella will not return to the team’s coaching staff following the 2025-26 season.
Jason Gregor: A text from an NHL player agent when asked about the Edmonton Oilers coaching position, and Mike Babcock: “The opportunity to play with McDavid or Draisaitl is diminished with the potential to be coached by Babcock.
The Vegas Golden Knights announced on Tuesday that John Tortorella will not return as the club’s head coach next season. Tortorella, who was hired on March 30 with eight games remaining in the regular season, agreed to a contract that only spanned the duration of the 2025-26 league year.
(Photo Credit: @GoldenKnights on X/Twitter) After an improbable run to the Final, one of the weirdest years in Vegas Golden Knights history has come to a close.
After guiding the team to its third Stanley Cup Final, the Vegas Golden Knights are moving on from their head coach.
Most teams that make it to the Stanley Cup Final and lose in six games would be content to believe they are already close to a championship, and capable of winning it all next season without much tinkering.
I have to admit that when Elliotte Friedman mentioned John Tortorella as a possible candidate for the Maple Leafs coaching job, my first reaction was simple: Really?
The Vegas Golden Knights saw their championship hopes fade away in a 3-0 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 6, losing the Stanley Cup Final 4-2. Carter Hart stopped 20 of 22 shots while the offense was shut out for the first time this postseason, and only the fifth time all season.
I already wrote the Game 6 recap, and it was not my favorite thing I have ever done. That story had to deal with the ending. This one is about the ride.
The Stanley Cup has been awarded to the Carolina Hurricanes, and for the Vegas Golden Knights, it was a solid run on the heels of a controversial coaching change that helped get them to the Finals.
Perhaps no player is feeling the sting of losing the Stanley Cup more than Vegas Golden Knights forward Mitch Marner. While Marner was eager to turn the page on his time with the Toronto Maple Leafs, there’s an alternate reality where he could be celebrating a Stanley Cup win instead of wondering what if.
Carter Hart was terrific for the Vegas Golden Knights through the first three rounds of the 2026 postseason, but the Stanley Cup Final proved to be a different challenge.
Jordan Staal put the Carolina Hurricanes’ Stanley Cup Final run into perspective Sunday after beating the Vegas Golden Knights for the ultimate trophy at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nev.
Even though it has consistently ended in near-misses and playoff frustration, the Carolina Hurricanes have objectively been one of the NHL's most successful franchises since the start of the 2018-19 season.
With eight games remaining in the 2025-26 regular season, the Vegas Golden Knights decided they needed a new voice behind their bench.
After so many deep playoff runs that just fell short, and after so many postseason disappointments, the Carolina Hurricanes are once again Stanley Cup champions.
LAS VEGAS -- For the third time in their brief nine-year history, the Vegas Golden Knights will have the Stanley Cup in T-Mobile Arena for an elimination game on Sunday night.
Vegas Golden Knights center William Karlsson has been ruled out of Sunday's Game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals due to a left arm injury. Karlsson sustained the injury Thursday during a 4-2 loss in Game 5 to the host Carolina Hurricanes.
The Vegas Golden Knights will once again have to fill in for a middle-six center. William Karlsson is unlikely to return to the 2026 Stanley Cup Finals due to an injury sustained in Game 5, head coach John Tortorella told Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman.
The Vegas Golden Knights needed Jack Eichel to lead. They needed Carter Hart to hold. They needed a cleaner night in front of their own net and fewer trips to the penalty box.
How many of the players to score the most goals in one Stanley Cup Playoff run for each NHL franchise can you name in five minutes?
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