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VOORHEES, N.J. — It probably goes without saying that the Flyers' head coaching decision is a monstrous one for general manager Danny Briere and president of hockey operations Keith Jones.
It's their first hire and, good or bad, it could define their rebuild. After Briere fired John Tortorella with nine games left in the season, the voice behind the bench jumped to the top of the GM's offseason objectives. "There's no doubt that the coaching search will be an important one," Briere said Saturday, two days after the Flyers' 2024-25 campaign came to a close with 49 losses.
Get top local stories in Philly delivered to you every morning. Sign up for NBC Philadelphia's News Headlines newsletter. At his end-of-the-season press conference, Briere did not have a timeline for when the Flyers would like to name a head coach.
They moved on from Tortorella a little over three weeks ago and the season just ended Thursday night, so the Flyers have yet to conduct any interviews. What qualities will Briere want in his coach? "I always believed communication is important, so that's going to be something we look into," Briere said. "Someone that can come in and teach will be an important one, as well.
Communication and teaching are probably two things that will be at the forefront of our next coach. When you have a young team in place, I really think those two attributes are extremely important." With Tortorella, the Flyers had a no-nonsense, pedigree-laden coach.
He was summoned in 2022 to rebuild the Flyers' standard after the team endured a disastrous, 57-loss season, one of the worst in franchise history. With identifying the next coach, it..
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