John Tortorella wasn’t the one one on the chopping block from the Philadelphia Flyers’ disappointing 2024-25 marketing campaign. The Flyers announced on Wednesday that they weren’t retaining Rocky Thompson or Darryl Williams as assistant coaches, nor Angelo Ricci because the membership’s expertise coach.
Williams is the most-veteran coach of the group, having began his skilled teaching profession as a video coach for the Vancouver Canucks within the 2008-09 season. He spent six years in that function, in addition to having fun with the group’s run to the Stanley Cup Ultimate in 2011, earlier than changing into an assistant coach for the New York Rangers in 2014-15. He was let go by the Rangers after the 2017-18 season, the identical time the group relieved head coach Alain Vigneault of his duties. Apparently sufficient, Williams grew to become an assistant coach once more within the 2021-22 season, this time with the Flyers.
In the meantime, Thompson has loved his longest stretch as an assistant coach with Philadelphia. He briefly served because the Edmonton Oilers assistant coach in 2014-15 and the San Jose Sharks’ in 2020-21. He served as the top coach of the OHL’s Windsor Spitfires and AHL’s Chicago Wolves in the course of the in-between years outdoors of the NHL, and joined the Flyers teaching workers for the 2022-23 season.
Ricci is arguably the least recognized of the trio, having solely served as expertise coach for the Buffalo Sabres and Flyers. Earlier than his transfer to Philadelphia, Ricci was a youth hockey mainstay in Denver, serving because the Colorado Thunderbirds U16 AAA group from 2005 to 2020.
