Eight potential candidates for the vacant coaching place in Philadelphia Flyers

The trial for the general manager of Philadelphia Flyers Daniel Briere to find that the next coach of the team has not yet started.

According to Briere, John Tortorella’s dismissal on Thursday morning “has happened very fast in the last few days. It is not as if we had something prepared. We have not started looking for or making a list, or something like that.”

But we can make a list. Let’s examine some candidates who may end up on the list of briere at some point.

Rick Tocchet

Speculation is already rampant That tocchet could leave Vancouver Canucks at the end of the season, his third there. If this happens, it is probably inevitable that at all he chatted with the flyers, while he and Keith Jones remain close friends. This is the last year of the Tocchet contract, which includes a team option for the next season.

If the flyers are looking for a sort of Light Tortorella, Tocchet could make sense. The 60 -year -old is part of his third NHL team as head coach and, of course, he is one of the most popular players in the history of franchise with his mixture of score and physicality. From the point of view of the perspective, there is no doubt that reporting Tocchet in the organization would be favorably from the fan base.

Mike Sullivan

It seems likely that Sullivan will remain in Pittsburgh, but would also bring at least an atmosphere similar to Tortorella, since the two are extremely good friends after working together with Tampa Bay, New York and Vancouver (and for the US team at the recent 4 nations). If Sullivan, 57, were fired by the Penguins, each team with a vacant place would probably give a ring to the twice champion of the Stanley Cup.

Brad Shaw

It looks like a long shot, if only because the 60 year old Shaw, the interim coach of the Flyers, seems more comfortable as an assistant coach at this stage of his career. His only coaching work before this was also on a provisional basis in 2005-06, when he trained the New York Islanders for 40 games, going 18-18-4.

“A long time has passed since I managed a bench or managed a team,” he said after Thursday. “I said I really had fun these nine games to myself, in the event that they were the last nine games that I can do it. If it goes longer than that, then fantastic. But at this moment we are only trying to bring this team to a point where we can build something a little positive to take in low season, and then be much better next year.”

Shaw received widespread praise for what he did with some Flyer defenders. It seems that there could be a path in which it remains with the organization as associated, but under a new coach.

Ian Laperriere

The former Flyers forward, 51 years old, is currently in his fourth season as head coach of their Ahl team, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. For the previous nine seasons, he worked as assistant flyers coach under several coaches. There is no doubt that the Flyer would at least talk with labor of work, but, as with Shaw, it looks like a long shot.

David Carle

In particular, he did not break down the idea that a young coach head took over.

“He won’t close the coaches because of their age,” he said. “If I am the appropriate coach … keep everything open.”

Nobody in this list is younger than the 35-year-old Carle, the leader of the University of Denver who won the national championships in 2022 (a team that included Bobby Brink flyers) and 2024

Carle’s brother, Matt, is a former defender of the flyers and teammate of Briere for four seasons.

Pat Ferschweiler

Flyers love one of the pupils of Ferschweiler in Western Michigan, Alex Bump, who enrolled in 2022. They could also be interested in the 55 -year -old Ferschweiler? It was Jones’ line of line to college.

Ferschweiler was head of the coach at the Western Michigan since August 2021, but he also worked as assistant coach with the Detroit Red Wings from 2015-16 to 2018-19.

Jay Woodcroft

It was remarkable that Woodcroft showed up at the Flyer Training field in September. The former Oilers coach contacted Tortorella, who invited him to observe his first pair of exhausting skates. Woodcroft, 48 years old, has been unemployed since he was fired by the Oilers at only 13 games in the 2023-24 season. He also spent time in the Red Wings and Sharks organizations and was a head of the AHL coach in Bakersfield, California, for parts of four seasons.

Peter Laviolette

A familiar name to fans of the Flyers, Laviolette, 60 years old, is the most recent coach to bring the club to the Stanley Cup final in 2010. If the Undererchieving Rangers are missing, his two -year mandate could finishAlthough the false steps of the general manager Chris Drury would probably be seen as the main reason why.

Laviolette has trained six different teams and is seventh of all time in the victories behind the bench.

(Photo of Rick Tocchet: Bob Frid / Imagn Images)