Rick Tocchet is the twenty-fifth head coach in Philadelphia Flyers' history. His hire means that twenty-four percent of the organization's head coaches played for the team.
Craig Berube was the most recent former player to become head coach (2013-14 and 2014-15). The others were John Stevens, Bill Barber, Terry Murray, and Paul Holmgren. Three coaches rank in the team's top ten playoff winning percentage: Murray, second place, .609; Holmgren, sixth place, .526; and Stevens, tenth place, .478. (Tocchet led two teams to the playoffs across nine full and partial seasons as a head coach for the Tampa Bay Lightning, Arizona Coyotes (2019-20), and Vancouver Canucks (2023-24.)
Tocchet, who turned 61 on April 9, won the 2023-24 Jack Adams Award (head coach of the year). He is the Flyers eighth head coach who has also been a head coach for Vancouver. The others were John Tortorella, Alain Vigneault, Roger Neilson, Mike Keenan, Bob McCammon, Pat Quinn, and Vic Stasiuk.
Fred Shero is the only head coach to lead Philadelphia to a Stanley Cup championship, winning in the 1973-1974 and 1974-1975 seasons. Shero has the third-highest playoff winning percentage (.578).
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