Flyers strengthen team with two former head coaches

Flyers strengthen team with two former head coaches

Mike Yeo was an assistant on Michel Therrien's staff in Pittsburgh. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/NHLI via Getty Images)

Mike Yeo was an assistant on Michel Therrien’s staff in Pittsburgh. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/NHLI via Getty Images)

As part of the restructuring of the Philadelphia Flyers coaching staff, two more well-known names were benched on Monday.

The team announced that Michel Therrien and Mike Yeo will join the team for the 2019–20 season as assistants to head coach Alain Vigneault, according to Executive Vice President and General Manager Chuck Fletcher.

Therrien, 55, has a long history of success as an NHL head coach, including two stints with the Montreal Canadiens and four years as the bench coach with the Pittsburgh Penguins. He posted a .567 winning percentage in his 12 seasons and 814 games as a head coach. Therrien was relieved of his duties as head coach of the Canadiens in the second half of the 2016-17 season.

Yeo was most recently a coach with the St. Louis Blues, where he served as an assistant from June 2016 to February 2017 and as head coach until November of this season. He was head coach of the Minnesota Wild from 2011 to 2016. The NHL’s youngest head coach has a winning percentage of 0.559 in 482 career games.

Therrien and Yeo will join returning assistant coach Ian Laperriere behind the bench, as well as goaltending coach Kim Dillabaugh and video coach Adam Patterson.

Vigneault was officially announced as the Flyers’ new head coach in mid-April. The Flyers finished last season with 82 points and a 37-37-8 record under coaches Dave Hakstol and Scott Gordon, who will take over as head coach of the team’s AHL affiliate team in Lehigh Valley.

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