The Philadelphia Flyers dominated the Monday NHL news cycle with the surprise announcement that head coach Peter Laviolette had been fired just three games into the 2013-14 season. Rather than bring in new blood, general manager Paul Holmgren elected to promote assistant coach Craig Berube.
An ex-Flyer himself, Berube has spent his entire coaching career with the Flyers organization as an assistant with the big club and in both assistant and head coaching roles with the AHL Philadelphia (now Adirondack) Phantoms.
Will an early change behind the bench cure what ails the Flyers?
Building a true team identity is a constant challenge with Philadelphia's ever-changing roster. If you don't count injured Chris Pronger, just four players remain from the 2010 team that went to the Stanley Cup Final in Laviolette's first year: Claude Giroux, Scott Hartnell, Kimmo Timonen and Braydon Coburn.
Ray Emery was also part of the 2009-10 regular-season lineup but suffered a season-ending injury that December, right as Laviolette took over. He's now back for a second tour of duty.
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