The Golden Knights can't be short-sighted with Bruce Cassidy's future

Don't you just love it when you hear crazy calls from fans? They want players like Tomas Hertl to be traded when they underperform, leaving the team in a revolving door of players and coaches. Yes, that includes Bruce Cassidy, who's been in the crosshairs of angry Vegas Golden Knights fans.

After struggling out the gate from the post-Olympic session, Golden Knights fans have called for the former Bruins head coach's... head. That has come in the form of social media outcry and calls for accountability. Yet, the problem isn't as simple as just firing your head coach.

You see, Cassidy is regarded as one of the league's best head coaches. I mean, it wasn't that long ago that he literally won the Stanley Cup for the Golden Knights. We're not even a decade into the team's history and they have a title because of the head coach! What are we even doing here?

But that isn't the only reason why Kelly McCrimmon and company can't be too hasty with axing the Golden Knights head coach. This reasoning involves deeper perspective, both from an organizational standpoint and from a league-wide perspective. Don't forget that firing a head coach is a franchise-altering move that has drastic consequences.

Why the Vegas Golden Knights can't fire Bruce Cassidy

Let me ask you a question, dear reader. Let's say that Cassidy does get fired by the Golden Knights and is made as the team's scapegoal. Who's coming in to replace him? Who can apply a similar system that the current head coach has in Las Vegas?

Not many names come to mind here, especially with regards to accomplished head coaches like Cassidy. Two Stanley Cup Finals and a Stanley Cup is hard enough to come across in today's NHL, making the former Bruins coach far more valuable than people realize.

One might point to the same things said for Gerard Gallant and Pete DeBoer. However, these were vastly different circumstances. Gallant couldn't make key adjustments and opponents caught on to his style. Pete DeBoer just wasn't able to make the Stanley Cup Final during his Vegas residency (along with a rhetorical sword going through a goaltender).

The players must step up for the Vegas Golden Knights

Here's the thing with Vegas's current situation. A man can only lead a horse to water before it eventually drinks. That's certainly the case for the Golden Knights, who have started slow in the first period this season.

That's not even mentioning how oddly structured the Golden Knights have become. The defenseman group has become more offensively inclined, leaving the back-end play behind (Rhymes Like Dimes!). In turn, the goaltending has fallen apart like a wet taco in the rain, leaving the goals to come a-pourin' in.

If anything has to change, it's the players themselves. They mustn't let one goal snowball into another, whether that lies with the giveaways or the netminders. Otherwise, there will be a fate far worse than falling apart. That could mean Cassidy's seat being warmer in the future.