articleThe Brief The Flyers let go Head Coach John Tortorella on Thursday. The Philadelphia Flyers fired coach John Tortorella on Thursday with nine games left in another losing season for a franchise that hasn’t been in the playoffs since 2020. The Flyers are last in the Metropolitan Division at 28-36-9 for 65 points under the notoriously brusque Tortorella. The Flyers haven't won the Stanley Cup since the last of their two straight championships in 1975. They last played in the Stanley Cup Final in 2010.