BREAKING: Philadelphia Flyers Move On From John Tortorella

John Tortorella, former Flyers Head Coach
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The Philadelphia Flyers announced that they relieved Head Coach John Tortorella of his coaching duties early Thursday morning and said that Associate Coach Brad Shaw will step in. Tortorella had one season left on his contract at about $4 million.

“Today I made the very difficult decision to move on from John as our head coach,” said General Manager Daniel Briere. “John played a vital role in our rebuild. He set a standard of play and re-established what it means to be a Philadelphia Flyer. John’s passion on the bench was only equalled by his charitable work in our community. As we move into the next chapter of this rebuild, I felt this was the best for our team to move forward. I’d like to thank John for his tireless work and commitment to the Flyers.”

Torotorella has a 97-107-33 record with the Flyers and a 28-36-9 record this season. He is also the first American-born coach to reach 600 career wins and has twice won the Jack Adams award.

Just a few days ago, Tortorella made a controversial statement following a 7-2 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs. “When you’re in this type of situation, and you’re losing all the time and there’s nothing at the end of the tunnel for you, there’s certainly going to be some frustration. But this falls on me. I’m not really interested in learning how to coach this type, in this type of season, where we’re at right now, but I have to do a better job, so this falls on me, getting the team prepared to play the proper way until we get to the end.”

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Jayd Serdy

I grew up in Seattle mostly following baseball as a kid and more recently got into hockey. Since then it’s been my favorite thing, I love the community surrounding it, the people it’s brought into my life, the opportunities and of course the game itself. When I’m not watching hockey I spend a lot of time outside with my dog and following all kinds of other sports!

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