So....is it safe to say after 3 games, ownership has seen enough to determine how your season is going to be?
That is one of the few explanations that can be offered after the Philadelphia Flyers axed now former head coach Peter Laviolette after an 0-3 start this season.
Laviolette has coached the team since 2009 and got the 2010 version of the Flyers all the way to the Stanley Cup Finals.
But a non-playoff performance in the strike shortened 2012 season coupled with we guess the slow start this year lead to his demise.
Assistant coach Craig Berube takes over the team. No word if he'll keep the job or if the Flyers are looking for someone else.
Highlights of Sunday's loss to the Carolina Hurricanes:
Showing posts with label Peter Laviolette. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peter Laviolette. Show all posts
Monday, October 7, 2013
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Pens-Flyers Finish A Preview Of Playoffs...??? (UPDATED WITH FINES)
((HT: NBC/NHL))
If points fall a certain way, the Pittsburgh-Philadelphia game could be a playoff preview. If it was a preview, then we're in a for a good one.
On day two of a back-to-back, Philadelphia spotted the Pens a 2-0 lead, but behind a four-goal 3rd period the Flyers beat the Penguins 6-4.
So what...? You say... the game got chippy and then boiled over with a little over a minute to go thanks to Joe Vitale...
Here's the edited ending...
Nothing like coaches finger-pointing at one another. And, as always, one is high-strung and the other looks at the first one thinking that Coach #1 is full of it...
The Second Season is only a week-and-a-half away...
MONDAY UPDATE: Laviolette has been fined $10,000 and Pittsburgh Penguins assistant coach Tony Granato was fined $2,500 for the dust-up...
If points fall a certain way, the Pittsburgh-Philadelphia game could be a playoff preview. If it was a preview, then we're in a for a good one.
On day two of a back-to-back, Philadelphia spotted the Pens a 2-0 lead, but behind a four-goal 3rd period the Flyers beat the Penguins 6-4.
So what...? You say... the game got chippy and then boiled over with a little over a minute to go thanks to Joe Vitale...
Here's the edited ending...
Nothing like coaches finger-pointing at one another. And, as always, one is high-strung and the other looks at the first one thinking that Coach #1 is full of it...
The Second Season is only a week-and-a-half away...
MONDAY UPDATE: Laviolette has been fined $10,000 and Pittsburgh Penguins assistant coach Tony Granato was fined $2,500 for the dust-up...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Staring Contest Between Flyers And Lightning, Milbury Walks Off In Protest
((HT: NHL on NBC/Versus/youtube))
Keith Jones admits that Tampa head coach Guy Boucher should "be embarrassed" after Philadelphia Flyers head coach Peter Laviolette responded with a trap with a trap- standing still...
Peacock studio host Liam McHugh said the game reminded him of Indiana high school basketball during the 1950's. Coaches are revealing a flaw in the system where Boucher's 1-3-1 trap approach is killing offenses everywhere...
Laviolette threw it in his face by standing still on the ice...
Literally...
And Mike Milbury walked off the set in protest...
In an interview with Pierre McGuire, Laviolette denied his approach was in retaliation to Boucher's boring game tactics...
the only part that wasn't boring was the Downie-Coburn tilt in the third period where two things were evident... 1) Coburn wears a shield and Downie does not. Coburn made the effort to take off his helmet before the scrap. 2) Coburn rediscovered the lost art of the upper cut...
Nicely played...
Keith Jones admits that Tampa head coach Guy Boucher should "be embarrassed" after Philadelphia Flyers head coach Peter Laviolette responded with a trap with a trap- standing still...
Peacock studio host Liam McHugh said the game reminded him of Indiana high school basketball during the 1950's. Coaches are revealing a flaw in the system where Boucher's 1-3-1 trap approach is killing offenses everywhere...
Laviolette threw it in his face by standing still on the ice...
Literally...
And Mike Milbury walked off the set in protest...
In an interview with Pierre McGuire, Laviolette denied his approach was in retaliation to Boucher's boring game tactics...
the only part that wasn't boring was the Downie-Coburn tilt in the third period where two things were evident... 1) Coburn wears a shield and Downie does not. Coburn made the effort to take off his helmet before the scrap. 2) Coburn rediscovered the lost art of the upper cut...
Nicely played...
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