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Peter Laviolette has been fired as coach of the New York Rangers after two seasons. (Photo by Bruce … More Bennett/Getty Images) Getty Images As the 2025 Stanley Cup playoffs begin Saturday, so do the off-season NHL coaching changes for the teams that didn’t reach the post-season. The Anaheim Ducks and New York Rangers were first out of the gate, announcing that Greg Cronin and Peter Laviolette had been relieved of their duties. Both Massachusetts natives with long histories in the game, Cronin and Laviolette had been hired for those positions eight days apart, in June of 2023. In two seasons on Broadway, Laviolette amassed a record of 94-59-11 for 199 points over 164 games. His first year was a success after he took over from Gerard Gallant: he guided the Rangers to a seven-point improvement in the standings, the Presidents’ Trophy as the top regular-season team and three rounds of playoffs before losing to the Florida Panthers in the Eastern Conference Final. The team also started strong in 2024-25, opening with a 12-4-1 record. But by late November, as word trickled out that GM Chris Drury had made franchise cornerstones Jacob Trouba and Chris Kreider available for trade, the team started to swoon and never recovered. By season’s end, the Rangers had fallen by 29 points to a record of 39-36-7, their worst finish by points percentage since David Quinn’s first year behind the bench in 2018-19. Trouba was traded to the Ducks in December and the Rangers made another big deal at the end of January when they re-acquired center J.T. Miller, who had been a first-round pick by the team back in 2011. In the end, they finished six points out of a playoff spot. Associate coach Phil Housley was also let go after two seasons, while…

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