Peter Laviolette

There are times now where it seems Flyers head coach Dave Hakstol has given up on trying to find the positive spin on games, sounding more like a coach defeated than a coach with an overabundance of positivity. Maybe that’s because there is nowhere to hide anymore. Is it time for a change?

Kimmo Timonen won't admit it – not yet, anyway – that there's still a burning desire for him to finally win a Stanley Cup.

Peter Laviolette will get to coach Shea Weber after all.
The former Flyers head coach was hired by the Nashville Predators on Tuesday morning, taking over for a fired Barry Trotz.
Laviolette becomes just the second head coach in the less than 20 year old Predators franchise...

The Peter Laviolette era is over in Philadelphia.

Last Saturday night, on the eve of the draft, Flyers general manger Paul Holmgren wasn’t thinking about Sam Morin, the defenseman he took in the first round. He wasn’t thinking about Robert Hagg, a second-round draft pick, either.
He was on a train up to New York with …

A veteran of 13 NHL seasons, Scott Hartnell got the message.
Benched after a “dumb” roughing penalty in the second period of Monday night’s loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning, the All-Star left wing found himself on the third line for the rest of the game...

For the first time in days, several Flyers walked into the dressing room with smiles on their faces.
After the 3-0 shellacking a day before against the Boston Bruins, there was a sigh of relief. A hard-earned, 3-2 victory over the equally desperate Buffalo Sabres was exactly what the postgame meeting…

Even though he’s already played 11 games with the Flyers, Tye McGinn can’t shake the nerves. At any point, he could be sent back to the AHL.
“You’ve been dreaming about it your whole life, to finally get that opportunity to play,&CloseCurlyDoubleQ…

The Flyers vowed that rest would be taken into account in all the practices and morning skates. Expect a lot of “optional skates,” was the general thinking.
Not today.
Even after a full practice on Monday, Peter Laviolette kept the Flyers on the ice a little longer than a n…

NEW YORK— Only a handful of days on the job and veteran Mike Knuble is already a big factor in the Flyers’ special teams.
Such is life in a shortened season. If one option doesn’t work, plug in another one. There’s precious time to play around and…