Flyers fire John Tortorella, name Brad Shaw interim head coach

[Boss Man Hughes]

The league is slowly losing the dinosaur approach to coaching.

Don't bet on it in Philly. They will probably hire Therrien.

 

[BrindamoursNose]

Well, after the comments he made the other day, I'm not surprised.

Interesting though... I don't personally recall the last time a coach stepped down voluntarily during a season, as opposed to being fired.

Based on the Flyers' statement, he was fired.

 

[Chuck Norris Trophy]

As many have said, it was just a matter of time after those comments. And some people even defended him, shaking my damn head.

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Don’t see him getting another coaching job but then again it’s the NHL

 

[StickShift]

Don’t see him getting another coaching job but then again it’s the NHL

As long as dinosaurs continue to own hockey teams—there will always be a demand for a coach to set the culture right.

 

[John Price]

I hope he'll consider becoming a commentator, I love his passion.

will probably go back to being a talking head on ESPN

 

[GoJackets1]

Really excited to see the next f***ing stupid team to hire Torts.

 

[tantalum]

Torts seems like a guy who has hit that stage in his life where he likes the idea of coaching but doesn't like the actual job of coaching.

 

[Gizmo Tkachuk]

He was basically begging to get fired

 

[admiralcadillac]

I guess shitting on pride night didn’t bring the wins he’d hoped

 

[Fight4yourRight]

Hopefully Rocky Thompson also gets fired into the sun.

Brad Shaw is a great d coach though. Hope they keep him around, (just not as the HC).

 

[GKJ]

Dude was begging to be fired after the other night

 

[Beau Knows]

Unless they hire Quenneville...pretty much anyone is going to be an improvement for the long term development of their young players.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Im at a loss how this guy has been hired over and over. He's Toxic!

The NHL is a recycling bin of dinosaurs. Sadly my team keeps dumpster diving in that bin.

Go away forever, Torts.

 

[Lt Dan]

 

[DVision44]

Lol.. listening to NHL radio this morning and they were just talking about how the Flyers brass and Torts were in lockstep and how he was involved in everything... so much for that...

 

[Curufinwe]

This was the time in the season when Torts liked to start taking games off and sitting in the press box. But evidently his laziness had progressed to the point where he didn't even want to do that.

 

[hangman005]

The NHL is a recycling bin of dinosaurs. Sadly my team keeps dumpster diving in that bin.

Go away forever, Torts.

Why would you say that to your next head coach

 

[SI90]

Great guy, great coach. I think he’s best when he’s with a team that’s ready to compete and not a young rebuilding team.

 

[Machinehead]

Please come back to the Rangers

 

[Victoire HuGo]

For all the flack he gets as a retread there are probably 10 retreads that don't get as much attention who are much worse as coaches.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Hopefully that idiot is not rehired again.

 

[GeeoffBrown]

Not surprising considering his comments about how he didn't wanna coach the team anymore LOL

 

[JackSlater]

Seems like he knew that was coming. Torts was always a strange fit with where Philadelphia was at in terms of competing.

 

[SI90]

Not surprising. He’s a great guy and a great coach. He’s better suited with a veteran team ready to compete rather than a rebuilding situation. Probably best for both Torts and Phillys interests to part ways