The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Metropolitan Division of the National Hockey League's (NHL) Eastern Conference.[1] The Flyers were founded in 1967 as one of six expansion teams, increasing the size of the NHL at that time to 12 teams.[2]
Since the franchise was established, the team has had 23 head coaches,[3] including Fred Shero, who coached the Flyers to two Stanley Cups in 1974 and 1975, and was the inaugural winner of the Jack Adams Award in 1973–74.[4] Three other Flyers coaches have won the Adams Award — Pat Quinn in 1979–80, Mike Keenan in 1984–85, and Bill Barber in 2000–01.[4] The Flyers current head coach is John Tortorella.[3]
Term | Definition |
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No. | Number of coaches[a] |
GC | Games coached |
W | Wins |
L | Losses |
T | Ties |
OT | Overtime/shootout losses |
Pts | Points |
Pts% | Points percentage |
Win% | Winning percentage |
# | Spent entire NHL head coaching career with the Flyers |
† | Elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in the Builder category |
‡ | Spent entire NHL head coaching career with the Flyers and also elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in the Builder category |
Note: Statistics are updated through the end of the 2022–23 season
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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No. | Name | Tenure | GC | W | L | T | OT | Pts | Pts% | GC | W | L | Win% | Refs |
1 | Keith Allen‡ | June 6, 1966 – May 19, 1969 | 150 | 51 | 67 | 32 | — | 134 | .447 | 11 | 3 | 8 | .273 | [5][6][7] |
2 | Vic Stasiuk | May 19, 1969 – May 27, 1971 | 154 | 45 | 68 | 41 | — | 131 | .425 | 4 | 0 | 4 | .000 | [6][8][9] |
3 | Fred Shero† | June 2, 1971 – May 22, 1978 | 554 | 308 | 151 | 95 | — | 711 | .642 | 83 | 48 | 35 | .578 | [10][11][12] |
4 | Bob McCammon | July 6, 1978 – January 30, 1979 | 50 | 22 | 17 | 11 | — | 55 | .550 | — | — | — | — | [13][14][15] |
5 | Pat Quinn† | January 30, 1979 – March 19, 1982 | 262 | 141 | 73 | 48 | — | 330 | .630 | 39 | 22 | 17 | .564 | [14][16][17] |
– | Bob McCammon | March 19, 1982 – April 25, 1984 | 168 | 97 | 51 | 20 | — | 214 | .637 | 10 | 1 | 9 | .100 | [15][16][18] |
6 | Mike Keenan | May 24, 1984 – May 11, 1988 | 320 | 190 | 102 | 28 | — | 408 | .638 | 57 | 32 | 25 | .561 | [19][20][21] |
7 | Paul Holmgren | June 1, 1988 – December 4, 1991 | 264 | 107 | 126 | 31 | — | 245 | .464 | 19 | 10 | 9 | .526 | [22][23][24] |
8 | Bill Dineen# | December 4, 1991 – May 24, 1993 | 140 | 60 | 60 | 20 | — | 140 | .500 | — | — | — | — | [23][25][26] |
9 | Terry Simpson | May 24, 1993 – May 20, 1994 | 84 | 35 | 39 | 10 | — | 80 | .476 | — | — | — | — | [25][27][28] |
10 | Terry Murray | June 23, 1994 – June 13, 1997 | 212 | 118 | 64 | 30 | — | 266 | .627 | 46 | 28 | 18 | .609 | [29][30][31] |
11 | Wayne Cashman# | July 7, 1997 – March 9, 1998 | 61 | 32 | 20 | 9 | — | 73 | .598 | — | — | — | — | [32][33][34] |
12 | Roger Neilson† | March 9, 1998 – June 8, 2000[b] | 185 | 92 | 57 | 33 | 3 | 220 | .595 | 29 | 14 | 15 | .483 | [33][35][36] |
13 | Craig Ramsay | June 8, 2000 – December 10, 2000 | 28 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 28 | .500 | — | — | — | — | [35][37][38] |
14 | Bill Barber# | December 10, 2000 – April 30, 2002 | 136 | 73 | 40 | 17 | 6 | 169 | .621 | 11 | 3 | 8 | .273 | [37][39][40] |
15 | Ken Hitchcock† | May 14, 2002 – October 22, 2006 | 254 | 131 | 73 | 28 | 22 | 312 | .614 | 37 | 19 | 18 | .514 | [41][42][43] |
16 | John Stevens | October 22, 2006 – December 4, 2009 | 263 | 120 | 109 | — | 34 | 274 | .521 | 23 | 11 | 12 | .478 | [42][44][45] |
17 | Peter Laviolette | December 4, 2009 – October 7, 2013 | 272 | 145 | 98 | — | 29 | 319 | .586 | 45 | 23 | 22 | .511 | [44][46][47] |
18 | Craig Berube | October 7, 2013 – April 17, 2015 | 161 | 75 | 58 | — | 28 | 178 | .553 | 7 | 3 | 4 | .429 | [46][48][49] |
19 | Dave Hakstol | May 18, 2015 – December 17, 2018 | 277 | 134 | 101 | — | 42 | 310 | .560 | 12 | 4 | 8 | .333 | [50][51][52] |
20 | Scott Gordon (interim) | December 17, 2018 – April 15, 2019 | 51 | 25 | 22 | — | 4 | 54 | .529 | — | — | — | — | [51][53] |
21 | Alain Vigneault | April 15, 2019 – December 6, 2021 | 147 | 74 | 54 | — | 19 | 167 | .568 | 16 | 10 | 6 | .625 | [54][55][56] |
22 | Mike Yeo (interim) | December 6, 2021 – May 3, 2022 | 60 | 17 | 36 | — | 7 | 41 | .342 | — | — | — | — | [55][57][58] |
23 | John Tortorella | June 17, 2022 – present | 82 | 31 | 38 | — | 13 | 75 | .457 | — | — | — | — | [3][59] |
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