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American ice hockey coach
Ice hockey player
Chadd Cassidy
(born August 3, 1973) is an
American
professional
ice hockey
coach and former head coach of the
Cape Breton Eagles
in the
Quebec Major Junior Hockey League
.
Cassidy played varsity hockey at the
State University of New York at Cortland
, graduating in 1995 with a degree in recreation and leisure studies. He served as an assistant coach at Cortland State from 1999 to 2001, and then at the
State University of New York at Potsdam
for the 2001?02 season. His next stop was with the
National Sports Academy
in
Lake Placid, New York
, where he was the head coach from 2002 to 2006, with his team winning the league championship in 2004. Next, Cassidy was an assistant coach under
Ron Rolston
with the U.S. National Under-18 Team from 2006 to 2011.
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On August 31, 2011, Cassidy joined the
Rochester Americans
as an assistant coach, and on February 20, 2013, he took over as head coach when Ron Rolston was promoted to coach the
Buffalo Sabres
.
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He was relieved of his duties as head coach on May 1, 2015.
[3]
He then became the head coach at
Northwood School
in
Lake Placid, New York
, from 2015 to 2021. In July 2021, he was named the head coach of the
Omaha Lancers
in the
United States Hockey League
, but resigned in November 2021 over concerns of the operations of the team.
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Cassidy was named the head coach of the Cape Breton Eagles on January 7, 2022, and the eighth head coach in the franchise's history in
Cape Breton
.
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