Chuck Fletcher

John Tortorella might be new in terms of being the Philadelphia Flyers’ head coach, but the veteran bench boss knows a thing or two about longevity. Despite a reputation as demanding boss — and former players aren’t shy to back that up, both in support and against Tortorella — his shortest stint behind an NHL bench is one full season with the Vancouver Canucks. That 82-game stint is certainly an outlier as Tortorella’s hard-nosed style is proven, having lasted six years each with the New York Rangers and Columbus Blue Jackets with another seven seasons behind the bench while winning a Stanley Cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning.

It was clear that Chuck Fletcher had run his course by the end of the 2017-18 playoffs. His Minnesota Wild team, which he’d essentially built from scratch, fell to the upstart Winnipeg Jets in five games. Instead of running it back, owner Craig Leipold decided to move on, bringing in Paul Fenton.

GM Chuck Fletcher says John Tortorella is the right coach at the right time to turn around the Philadelphia Flyers. Don’t use the word ‘culture’ when you talk about the changes that John Tortorella will bring to the Philadelphia Flyers. “I just call it standard,” said the...

'Exactly what we need' — Fletcher hopes Flyers have big answer in-house originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia. Chuck Fletcher said it with almost a desperate laugh. The Flyers' general manager is facing a daunting offseason in which he has to look for answers at just about every turn.

After the second-worst season in this once-proud franchise’s history, the Philadelphia Flyers have an important summer ahead of them. General manager Chuck Fletcher, mindful his team was decimated by injuries this season, has suggested an “aggressive retool” is in order. Head boss Dave Scott has said if...

Today’s NHL Rumors looks deeper at two Metropolitan Division that missed the post-season. Both the Philadelphia Flyers and New Jersey Devils are looking to take the next steps for their respective franchises. The Flyers in particular are expected to have a future-shaping offseason ahead. One of the biggest things...

The Philadelphia Flyers fired head coach Mike Yeo of Scarborough, Ontario and general manager Chuck Fletcher of Montreal, Quebec on Tuesday. The Flyers had a poor 2021-22 National Hockey League regular season as they finished dead last in the Metropolitan Division with a record of 25 wins, 46 regulation losses, and 11 losses in extra time for 61 points.

VOORHEES, N.J. — He confirmed there will be a new head coach in place sometime during the offseason, playfully added “a little bit of both” when asked whether he’d be spending another long offseason trying to woo free agents and/or making trades rather than working on stockpiling prospects and assets for a future that never seems to come.

It’s that time again! With the season over for the Flyers and the player exit interviews done with, all that left was for Chuck Fletcher to complete his own end of season availability, and we got that this morning. With an acknowledgement of the difficulty of the season, Fletcher fielded questions about the team and how they plan to right the ship, and while there wasn't anything massively groundbreaking, there was still a good bit for us to dig into. Let’s hit on some of those key points.

Mike Yeo will not be returning as head coach of the Philadelphia Flyers this fall, but GM and President of Hockey Operations Chuck Fletcher is open to keeping Yeo within the organization in a new role. Yeo was relieved of his duties as head coach on Monday, ending what has...

The biggest thing to come out of today’s Chuck Fletcher press conference is that the organization’s focus is on finding and hiring the next coach. As a professional recruiter, I have had to listen to a million hiring managers attempt to talk about building an “ideal candidate profile” and the experience can be just as painful as what we just heard from Fletcher.

Chuck Fletcher met with the media for about 40 minutes on Tuesday, with a new coaching search underway and the 'aggressive retool' still in place. He talked about the issues that plagued the Flyers in a season where anything and everything went wrong, the plans to address them, and reasons for optimism that they can get things turned around fast.