List of Philadelphia Flyers head coaches

The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia. 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]

Rick Tocchet is the current head coach of the Flyers.

Since the franchise was established, the team has had 25 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 Rick Tocchet.^[3]

Key

Key of terms and definitions

Term	Definition
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

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the 2024–25 season.

Head coaches of the Philadelphia Flyers

No.	Name	Tenure	Regular season							Playoffs				Refs
			GC	W	L	T	OT	Pts	Pts%	GC	W	L	Win%
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 – March 27, 2025	237	97	107	—	33	227	.479	—	—	—	—	[59][60][61]
24	Brad Shaw (interim)	March 27, 2025 – May 14, 2025	9	5	3	—	1	11	.611	—	—	—	—	[60][62]
25	Rick Tocchet	May 14, 2025 – present	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	[3][63]

• 
  Fred Shero, shown here during his playing days with the New York Rangers, led the Flyers to back-to-back Stanley Cup championships and was the inaugural winner of the Jack Adams Award.^[4]
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  Pat Quinn won the Jack Adams Award during the Flyers record breaking 1979–80 season.
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  Paul Holmgren was later GM and is now President of the team
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  Peter Laviolette's five seasons as Flyers coach is second only to Fred Shero.
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  Craig Berube served two seasons as Flyers head coach.
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  Dave Hakstol served four seasons as Flyers head coach.

See also

• List of NHL head coaches

Notes

1. A running total of the number of coaches of the Flyers. Thus any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
2. Neilson went on medical leave on February 20, 2000^[35] and initially planned on returning at the end of the first round of the playoffs, but his doctors advised the Flyers that he lacked the strength to perform his duties as head coach. After interim coach Craig Ramsay led the Flyers to the Eastern Conference Finals, the Flyers named Ramsay head coach.^[35] The games Ramsay coached in place of Neilson are officially counted on Neilson's coaching totals.^[36]