The coaches.

Flyers reportedly plan to fire Dave Hakstol, have eyes on Joel Quenneville as replacement

There could be a big-time shakeup coming behind the Philadelphia Flyers bench, according to a report from the Courier-Post's Dave Isaac on Sunday.

Per Isaac, the Flyers are planning to dismiss head coach Dave Hakstol either on Sunday night or Monday morning. If he is indeed fired, Hakstol would depart in his fourth season as Flyers coach, leaving with a record of 134-101-42. The Philadelphia gig was his first NHL head coaching job, having been hired away from North Dakota (NCAA) in 2015.

The massive coaching change would continue the turnover in Philadelphia, where Ron Hextall was fired as the team's general manager in late November. The Flyers later hired Chuck Fletcher as Hextall's successor, and the team's senior leadership said Fletcher would be responsible for handling any coaching decisions.

Fletcher and the Flyers reportedly have their eyes on former Chicago Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville. According to the Courier-Post's report, Quenneville has already been offered (and has accepted) the job in Philadelphia.

However, that report that Quenneville accepted the job has since been refuted by several people, including Quenneville himself.






Quenneville, fired by Chicago earlier this season, is coming off 10-plus seasons with the Blackhawks. He won three Stanley Cups titles in a six-year span behind the bench in Chicago, leading many to dub the team a modern day dynasty. He is the second-winningest coach in NHL history with an all-time record of 890-532-214.

Quenneville, 60, is still due to collect a $6 million salary from the Blackhawks for the remainder of this season and next.

The Flyers were expected to be a playoff contender heading into this season but things haven't gone well to begin the year, and they've had an especially rough stretch of late. The team has lost four games in a row and currently sits in the basement of the Eastern Conference's Metropolitan division with a 12-15-4 record.

If Quenneville does indeed accept the coaching gig, it seems unlikely he'll be in place to coach the team's next game, a contest against the Detroit Red Wings at home on Tuesday night (7 p.m. ET, available on fuboTV).

 

Flyers fire Dave Hakstol and replace him with Scott Gordon, who was the coach of Leigh Valley in the AHL.

 

That lousy road trip did him in...

 

Not much of a resume for this Masshole either, hardly remember him with the leafs. He was head coach for the isles, 2008 to 2011.

 

Masshole? what's wrong with you , man?

 

Massive Masshole

 

Masshole? A Massachusetts asshole?

 

Yeah those reports of JQ coming to philly were awesome until they were proven untrue. Bummer. The fans were excited on FB.

 

A masshole like barrasso or even mike milbury

 

tom barasso may be the most hated man on the hockey threads. he's not welcome here and we accept a lot of people. haha.

 

Think about the Masshole theory, you have barrasso, milbury and JR?????

Belichick has worked there for so long and obviously gets the honorary masshole recogniton certifcate.

 

i don't mind JR. I got no beef with Barasso. Milbury is an asshole. All cheating aside, Belichick is the greatest NFL Coach of all time !

 

what exactly is the Masshole theory?

 

https://www.thrillist.com/lifestyle/boston/obnoxious-boston-stereotypes#

It's just shit that's been floating around.

 

http://hellomynameisfiona.com/massholes/

 

when ESPN used to have on Boston's Bob Ryan and Dan Shaughnessy i used to cringe. these 2 are a perfect example of MASSHOLE!

 

Don't you think when you use that term in general, you might be rubbing some folks the wrong way? You rubbed me the wrong way with its use in the context that you used... you also and obviously rubbed Matty the wrong way. Not cool.

 

Am I the first one to use that word here?

 

What does that have to do with anything? Its the context and the timing when you used it. I want Matty and others back here on this site and when you first started throwing the word around it was in the midst of tension. wtf, you know exactly what you were doing.