Flyers Old Hat at Making Change
Laviolette is just the third Flyer coach fired in mid-season with a losing record.
Peter Laviolette is the eighth Flyers coach to be replaced in mid-season, yet somehow he is only the third of those eight coaches who had a losing record to that point in the season. (And, yes, current general manager Paul Holmgren, who fired Lavvy Monday, was one of the other two.)
As a whole, the eight outgoing coaches were a combined 10 games over .500. The incoming coaches did improve on that slightly, with a record 15 games over.
John Stevens, who replaced Ken Hitchcock in 2006, is the only of the seven replacements that did not finish out the season with a winning record.
Below are the Flyers nine mid-season coaching changes due to firings.
(For more on the Flyers coaching change, click HERE to see our BoopStats page in Tuesday's Daily News.)
| Season | Old Coach | Record | New Coach | Record |
| 1978-79 | Bob McCammon |
22-17-11 | Pat Quinn |
18- 8- 4 |
| 1981-82 | Pat Quinn |
34-29- 9 | Bob McCammon |
4- 2- 2 |
| 1991-92 | Paul Holmgren |
8-14- 2 | Bill Dineen |
24-23- 9 |
| 1997-98 | Wayne Cashman |
23-20- 9 | Roger Neilson |
10- 9- 2 |
| 2000-01 | Craig Ramsay |
12-12- 4 | Bill Barber |
31-13-10 |
| 2006-07 | Ken Hitchcock |
1- 6- 1 | John Stevens |
21-42-22 |
| 2009-10 | John Stevens |
13-11- 1 | Peter Laviolette |
28-24- 5 |
| 2013-14 | Peter Laviolette |
0- 3- 0 | Craig Berube |
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| 122-112-37 (.518) | 136-121-43 (.525) | |||
