Dallas Stars players knew the importance of Monday’s game for coach Pete DeBoer and played like it in a decisive win over the Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena.
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Bruce Cassidy, introduced as the Golden Knights’ coach Thursday, is known for telling players exactly what he thinks about their performance and how it can improve.
Pete DeBoer was fired as coach of the Golden Knights on Monday, meaning the team will soon have a third person hired to the position in six seasons.
Golden Knights center Jack Eichel was welcomed as you might expect — with a thunderous ovation from the T-Mobile Arena crowd holding posters with messages scrawled across them.
The Knights again tempted fate with a slow start against Montreal, this time paying for it with a 3-2 defeat in a NHL semifinal series.
Golden Knights coach Pete DeBoer said it was an easy decision to start Marc-Andre Fleury, who stopped 29 of 30 shots but watched helplessly as his teammates missed shot after shot.
The Golden Knights are back home not for a lack of coaching but because those on the ice who are paid handsomely to produce didn’t in the Western Conference Final.
Fans certainly will be content with first impressions, the Knights having snapped a four-game losing streak by beating the Ottawa Senators 4-2 on Thursday.