The Philadelphia Flyers have fired Alain Vigneault
Sunday night’s embarrassing loss was the nail in the coffin for the Philadelphia Flyers.
After getting dropped by a score of 7-1 on home ice by the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Flyers have fired head coach Alain Vigneault and assistant coach Michel Therrien. Assistant coach Mike Yeo has been named interim head coach.
Mike Yeo will be #Flyers coach tonight vs. #Avs in second game of back-to-back.
We'll see where this goes, but my sense is Rick Tocchet will be high on Philadelphia's candidate list.
The Flyers came into 2021-22 with high expectations after a busy offseason that saw them acquire Cam Atkinson, Keith Yandle and Ryan Ellis. They started off well, going 8-4-2 over the first month of play, but an eight-game losing streak has derailed the Flyers’ season.
Philadelphia now sits 8-10-4, seven points out of a playoff spot in the highly-competitive Metropolitan Division.
Vigneault was hired by the Flyers ahead of the 2019-20 season. He led the team to a 41-21-7 record when the league got paused due to COVID-19, resulting in the Flyers being the Eastern Conference’s No. 1 seed inside the bubble. In 2021, the Flyers took a step backward, going 25-23-8 and missing the playoffs.
All told, Vigneault put up a 74-54-19 record with the Flyers. Vigneault’s 147 games over parts of three seasons with the club marks his shortest tenure as an NHL head coach. He coached 540 games in Vancouver, 410 with the New York Rangers and 266 with the Canadiens.