The Flyers fired Tortorella last week after a 7-2 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Flyers were on a six-game losing skid at the time of Tortorella's firing, but since then, they have gone 3-0. In their most recent outing, the Flyers defeated the Nashville Predators at home on Monday, 2-1.

Jamie Drysdale scored the tiebreaking goal, Ivan Fedotov stopped 28 shots, and the Flyers beat the Predators 2-1 for their third straight win under interim coach Brad Shaw.

Three games down in the post John Tortorella era and three wins for the Philadelphia Flyers. With the shackles coming off and an aura of relief beaming off the team, the Flyers seemingly have new life breathed into them in the trio of contests since last Thursday’s shocking coaching change.

The Flyers are still thriving post-John Tortorella firing.

The odds-makers believe it’s a possibility. According to FanDuel ( per TSN ), Tocchet is the favorite to become the next Flyers’ coach at +185, ahead of the University of Denver’s David Carle (+210), former Oilers coach Jay Woodcroft (+340) and current interim coach Brad Shaw (+430). And it does make some sense.

The Nashville Predators lost again, this time to Philadelphia, but they improved their NHL draft lottery odds with the result.

Since the Philadelphia Flyers made their coaching change and removed the always-controversial and often offensie-stifling John Tortorella, Matvei Michkov has looked like a player unleashed.

No one on this list is younger than the 35-year-old Carle, the head coach at the University of Denver who won national championships in 2022 (a team that included Flyers forward Bobby Brink) and 2024. Carle has led Team USA to back-to-back World Juniors championships, too.

The Nashville Predators play the Philadelphia Flyers at Wells Fargo Center on Monday. Follow for live updates.

The Philadelphia Flyers recalled Aleksei Kolosov from the AHL exactly one week ago, and he has yet to do so much as to dress as a backup goalie for even one game so far.