The low-hanging fruit is Owen Tippett, who has had a down year after signing an eight-year contract extension last winter. One of the bigger positive development stories under Tortorella originally, Tippett’s progression stagnated this year; he has fallen out of the team’s top six and has remained there even under Shaw.

The Flyers fired John Tortorella with nine games left in his third season as head coach, a campaign mired with on-ice regression.

An incident between John Tortorella and Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Cam York this week contributed to a deteriorating relationship between coach and team that led to Tortorella’s firing on Thursday morning, a team source said.