The Philadelphia Flyers fired coach Alain Vigneault on Monday following eight straight losses, two timid of matching a team myth of 10 in a row, and with the franchise removed from ending a 47-year Stanley Cup drought.
The Flyers own been one of NHL’s ideal flops of the season. Their most modern loss used to be a 7-1 defeat by Tampa Bay on Sunday night that sealed Vigneault’s destiny. Assistant coach Michel Therrien moreover used to be fired.
“Unprejudiced now, we’ve misplaced our ability,” Flyers general supervisor Chuck Fletcher talked about.
The Flyers are 8-10-4 and in seventh effort within the Metropolitan Division. Vigneault went 147-74-54 with the Flyers and uncared for the playoffs perfect season.
Mike Yeo used to be named period in-between coach. The Flyers play Monday night against Colorado.
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Fletcher tried to blame injuries perfect week for the team’s contemporary slide, but it absolutely modified into clear because the losses piled up that a trade used to be compulsory.
“The perfect ten, we slipped aid. There’s no quiz,” he talked about perfect week. “Now the onus is on our group to ranking it aid. When injured gamers attain aid, it makes it more uncomplicated. We can’t petite one ourselves. We have to get better.”
Vigneault lasted good 2-plus seasons in Philadelphia and never could lead the Flyers within the handsome route this year after a promising first season by which he led them to the No. 1 seed within the Japanese Convention within the NHL’s restart bubble.
“The fellow that is the leader of this group who has every his hands on the guidance wheel is me and I have to win a ability to ranking this group to play greater,” he talked about Sunday. “We’re in a impolite skid handsome now and we must always discontinuance this. We have a risk the following day night and with any luck we can play greater.”
Vigneault had led the Sleek York Rangers and Vancouver Canucks to the Stanley Cup Final and used to be looking out out for to attain the same in Philadelphia, the keep the Flyers have not received it all since consecutive championships in 1974 and 1975.
The Flyers as an replace are attempting to help far flung from a 10-game shedding jog for the main time since the 2018-19 season.
“I own performed somewhat about a embarrassing games and right here’s positively one of them,” captain Claude Giroux talked about after the Tampa Bay loss. “We desire to resolve it out handsome snappily right here.”
It be as much as Yeo, on the least within the short time frame, to resolve out how to fix the Flyers. Yeo used to be fired by the St. Louis Blues in November 2018. He joined the Blues as an assistant in 2016 after five seasons with Minnesota. The Wild made the playoffs in three of Yeo’s four full seasons, and he used to be fired 55 games into 2015-16.
“Right here’s a risk for me to expose that I’ve grown,” Yeo talked about.
Fletcher used to be GM in Minnesota when Yeo coached the Wild and the new coach will most likely ranking some games to expose he can steer the Flyers toward a playoff lunge.
“The level of curiosity is now not on interviewing of us and speeding to rent a head coach. It’s to strengthen Mike,” Fletcher talked about.
Fletcher overhauled the roster following perfect season’s 25-23-8 myth (58 points) below Vigneault. The Flyers gave out prosperous contract extensions to Joel Farabee and Carter Hart and an eight-year, $62 million deal to Sean Couturier. Fletcher obtained defensemen Ryan Ellis and Rasmus Ristolainen and signed Keith Yandle and Derick Brassard. The Flyers moreover signed backup goaltender Martin Jones and traded for forward Cam Atkinson.
“I serene don’t know in actuality what we own right here,” Fletcher talked about.
Over again in Philly, the changes weren’t sufficient to construct the Flyer a championship contender.
The Flyers have not made the Stanley Cup Final since it misplaced to Chicago in 2010.
“I’m able to’t communicate for one of the best 10 years. these sorts of men haven’t been right here that prolonged,” Fletcher talked about. “The process handsome now isn’t handsome. We have to ranking aid to enjoying the handsome ability.”
