Ryan Craig is next.
The Vegas Golden Knights made authoritative what has been agelong expected, naming 1 of the organization’s longest mainstays arsenic their 5th manager successful squad history, the squad announced Wednesday.
The determination comes aft John Tortorella was informed Tuesday that helium would not beryllium returning to the squad pursuing an improbable playoff tally that enactment the Knights 2 wins distant from a Stanley Cup championship.
Instead, the Knights are opening a caller era, promoting Craig aft spending 3 years arsenic the caput manager of Henderson from the American Hockey League.
Craig, 44, has been with the enactment from its inception. He was hired arsenic an adjunct manager connected inaugural manager Gerard Gallant’s unit successful 2017.
He not lone stayed done Gallant’s tenure, but was besides a pb adjunct connected Pete DeBoer’s unit from 2020-22, and done Bruce Cassidy’s archetypal play with the Knights successful 2023.
Cassidy was fired connected March 29 and replaced by Tortorella. The Knights finished 7-0-1 to clinch a 5th Pacific Division rubric successful 9 years.
That tally sparked an unthinkable tally that concluded with the Knights making the Stanley Cup Final for the 3rd clip successful 9 years.
The Knights mislaid successful six games to the Carolina Hurricanes.
Craig was named manager of the Silver Knights 2 weeks aft the Knights completed their Stanley Cup title run.
Craig led the Silver Knights to the Calder Cup Playoffs this past season, anchored by a 17-3-3 tally to adjacent the regular season.
The squad won its archetypal Calder Cup Playoff bid successful squad past by sweeping the San Jose Barracuda, but fell to the Colorado Eagles successful the 2nd circular successful 4 games.
Craig played 14 nonrecreational seasons, but was mostly a mainstay successful the AHL. He was picked 255th wide by the Tampa Bay Lightning successful 2002 and played successful 198 vocation NHL games.
A skipper done astir of his AHL tenure, Craig played 711 AHL games.
Craig is liable for aiding successful the improvement of immoderate of the Knights’ young players, specified arsenic undrafted forwards Braeden Bowman and Kai Uchacz, who made their NHL debuts this season.
Goaltender Carl Lindbom, the Knights’ apical netminder prospect, besides made his NHL debut this season.
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