Confirmed with Link: John Tortorella relieved of his duties as Flyers coach. Brad Shaw to take interim charge for now.

The firing of Torts with 9 games left is something. I’m guessing the players said something. I am hoping it also means next year will be a tank year. Ride out the Fedotov contract and give Lappy the year to tank.

Worst case, they have no plan as usual and this is just by the seat of their pants. I have a hard time believing this since it is Torts who I think commands respect around the league.
 
ASF Thinks the players probably went to Danny and said something...Everyone else realizes he probably fired himself with what he said post game the other night.

If they'd listened to me and fired him right after he was hired and he said that he doesn't know what's going on and isn't going to bother learning, we could have saved a lot of pain.
 
I’ve never seen a coach, let alone year 1, just stop coaching the team the final month and sit in the press box (until he complained about it and stopped doing even that). He didn’t even want to be behind the bench in preseason games. That this was the Culture Guru demanding strong work ethic from others was a hoot. A lazy puffed up grump until the end.
 
I’ve never seen a coach, let alone year 1, just stop coaching the team the final month and sit in the press box (until he complained about it and stopped doing even that). He didn’t even want to be behind the bench in preseason games. That this was the Culture Guru demanding strong work ethic from others was a hoot. A lazy puffed up grump until the end.

I’ll give him credit his last act took some balls publicly saying he has no interest in trying to coach this type of team anymore. :laugh:
 
its not one thing, its a series of things that have happened, probably a little bit more for the last 3 weeks that have escalated since the trade deadline. An accumulation of things that have happened more often lately - DB
 

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