On Friday, the Philadelphia Flyers made the unsurprising decision to fire head coach Craig Berube.
Berube, who was originally hired three games into last season after the Peter Laviolette-led Flyers went 0-3 to start the year, had a strong debut campaign with the club but was much less successful as a sophomore. Philadelphia posted a 33-31-18 record and missed the playoffs.
How much of that was really Berube's fault is highly debatable, but the one thing we know for sure is that it's not his problem any more. A Flyers team hamstrung by years of mismanagement on the cap side and with both some exceptional talent and some decidedly weak points on the roster will now be handed to a different coach in the hopes that somebody else can get more out of the team.
Who should that somebody else be? That's the question we'll try to answer in this slideshow. We've limited ourselves to 10 possibilities (though naturally there are other plausible candidates not on this list). Given the way the NHL works, we have placed an emphasis on candidates with ties to Hextall or the Flyers organization.
Begin Slideshow
...
Read Full Article at Bleacher Report - NHL
Article written by Jonathan Willis
Ranking the Best Candidates to Replace Craig Berube as Flyers Head Coach
April 17th, 2015 by Jonathan Willis Leave a reply »
Advertisement