{"id":492463,"date":"2025-04-19T14:07:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T18:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=492463"},"modified":"2025-04-19T14:07:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T18:07:44","slug":"rangers-dismiss-head-coach-laviolette-after-missing-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rangers-dismiss-head-coach-laviolette-after-missing-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers dismiss head coach Laviolette after missing playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Rangers dismissed coach Peter Laviolette today in the aftermath of missing the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>The firing of Peter was made by GM Chris Drury came after the franchise missed the postseason, the result of a lost campaign during which they massively underachieved preseason expectations after being at the East Conference finals in the past campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Phil Housley was let go. Owner James Dolan and the general manager are expected to begin the search for a full-time boss swiftly, and roster changes will be made during the offseason.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The New York Rangers are moving on from head coach Peter Laviolette and associate coach Phil Housley. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ofzMfw4k2Y\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ofzMfw4k2Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TSN (@TSN_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/1913644088491917371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA few hours ago, I told Peter Laviolette and Phil Housley that they will be dismissed,\u201d the Rangers general manager revealed. \u201cI wish the duo all the best in the future, both personally and professionally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laviolette spent just 2 campaigns in his 6<sup>th<\/sup> head-coaching role in the National Hockey League after getting appointed during the summer of 2023. Peter led in the previous 3 seasons the Capitals and was also at the helm of the Predators, Flyers, Hurricanes, and the Islanders as he triumphed with the Stanley Cup with Carolina in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Rangers dismissed coach Peter Laviolette today in the aftermath of missing the postseason. The firing of Peter was made by GM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":492464,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16716,17844,23469],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[17850,18817,6811],"acf":{"announce":"New York fired Peter after 2 seasons at the helm of the organization.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492467,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492463\/revisions\/492467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492463"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=492463"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=492463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}