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ESPN News Services
May 14, 2025, 12:34 PM ET
The Philadelphia Flyers are closing successful connected hiring Rick Tocchet arsenic their adjacent caput coach, sources confirmed to ESPN connected Wednesday.
Tocchet, 61, spent parts of 11 seasons with the Flyers during his playing career.
He is expected to rejoin the franchise to efficaciously regenerate John Tortorella, who was fired successful March with the squad limping toward its 5th consecutive play without a playoff berth.
Brad Shaw took implicit arsenic the interim manager of the Flyers, who finished tied for past spot successful the Eastern Conference with a 33-39-10 grounds (76 points).
Tocchet stepped down arsenic manager of the Vancouver Canucks aft his three-year declaration expired astatine the decision of the 2024-25 season.
He was lone 1 play removed from earning the Jack Adams Award arsenic the NHL's manager of the year, erstwhile Vancouver won the Pacific Division and aboriginal mislaid to the Edmonton Oilers successful Game 7 of the Western Conference semifinals.
The Canucks failed to marque the playoffs this season, going 38-30-14 (90 points) and finishing six points down the St. Louis Blues for the 2nd wild-card berth.
Tocchet had erstwhile head-coaching stints with the Tampa Bay Lightning (2008-10) and Arizona Coyotes (2017-21). He replaced Bruce Boudreau down the Canucks' seat successful January 2023.
He has a vocation NHL coaching grounds of 286-265-87 successful the regular play and 11-11 successful the postseason. He was 108-65-27 successful Vancouver, positive 7-6 successful the playoffs.
Daily Faceoff was archetypal to study that Tocchet and the Flyers were adjacent to a deal.
Field Level Media contributed to this report.
