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The Philadelphia Flyers have called a news conference for 11am et/8am pt to announce that the club has fired head coach Peter Laviolette and replaced him with assistant Craig Berube.
According to TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger, John Paddock and former Flyer Ian Laperriere are expected to be named Berube's assistants.
The Flyers are off to a 0-3 start this season and have scored just once in each of their three losses, including Sunday's 2-1 setback to Carolina. He was given a multi-year contract extension in August 2012, but the Flyers stumbled during the lockout-shortened 2013 season, failing to make the playoffs with a 23-22-3 record.
The Flyers also began last season with three straight losses and never got above .500 until the final game of the season.
Laviolette was hired early in the 2009-10 season after John Stevens was fired and he led them to the 2010 Stanley Cup Final where the Flyers lost the Chicago Blackhawks.
Laviolette has previously coached the Carolina Hurricanes - where he coached the club to a Stanley Cup in 2006 - and the New York Islanders. He has had just one losing season as a head coach and owns a career record of 389-282-25-63.
Also, his clubs have gone 43-39 in the postseason and he was the head coach of the United States men's hockey team at the 2006 Olympics, which ended with a loss to Finland in the quarterfinals.
According to TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger, John Paddock and former Flyer Ian Laperriere are expected to be named Berube's assistants.
The Flyers are off to a 0-3 start this season and have scored just once in each of their three losses, including Sunday's 2-1 setback to Carolina. He was given a multi-year contract extension in August 2012, but the Flyers stumbled during the lockout-shortened 2013 season, failing to make the playoffs with a 23-22-3 record.
The Flyers also began last season with three straight losses and never got above .500 until the final game of the season.
Laviolette was hired early in the 2009-10 season after John Stevens was fired and he led them to the 2010 Stanley Cup Final where the Flyers lost the Chicago Blackhawks.
Laviolette has previously coached the Carolina Hurricanes - where he coached the club to a Stanley Cup in 2006 - and the New York Islanders. He has had just one losing season as a head coach and owns a career record of 389-282-25-63.
Also, his clubs have gone 43-39 in the postseason and he was the head coach of the United States men's hockey team at the 2006 Olympics, which ended with a loss to Finland in the quarterfinals.
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