Brad Shaw has decided it’s time to move on. The news, which a source confirmed to The Inquirer, comes a day after Rick Tocchet was named the Flyers’ 25th head coach, a job that Shaw, the team’s most recent interim boss,

The Flyers hope his return to the franchise will push them out of an extended rebuild and into playoff contention.

It’s an established pattern in the NHL — teams rotating through the same inventory of coaches over and over, in the hopes that the experience they have gained in their previous stops will help them to immediately get off on the right foot in their new locales.