Tick, tick, boom, the Flyers got their guy on Wednesday. Rick Tocchet, 61, was hired as the 25th head coach (including interims) in Flyers history, the Flyers announced Wednesday. Before John Tortorella was fired on March 27,

Tocchet started coaching with the Colorado Avalanche before joining Wayne Gretzky's staff with the Arizona Coyotes. He took some time off before returning in 2008-09 with the Tampa Bay Lightning. After stops with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Coyotes, and Vancouver Canucks, Tocchet now returns to Philadelphia for the first time since 2001-02.

Tocchet won the Stanley Cup as an assistant with Pittsburgh in 2016 and ’17 and played more than a decade with Philadelphia in separate stints at the start and end of his career.