The Philadelphia Flyers will have a new group of coaches behind the bench for the 2025-26 season.
We already know that Rick Tocchet will be the head honcho after his introduction last week, but his assistants have yet to be named. We also know that former assistant and interim head coach Brad Shaw “really wanted” the full-time gig and will not be returning to the Flyers.
There have been some names floating around with regards to who could be one of the Flyers new assistant coaches under Tocchet. Most of these names already have some tie to the Flyers, like Tocchet’s former teammates Luke Richardson and Mark Recchi.
While Richardson remains a strong option, it appears that Recchi has opted out of a potential assistant coach role.
One name to scratch off the #Flyers assistant coach list is Mark Recchi. An ambassador for the club, he’s happy doing that role and doesn’t really have an itch to get back into coaching right now.
— Jackie Spiegel (@jackiespiegel93) May 20, 2025
Recchi was initially traded to Philadelphia with Rick Tocchet and Kjell Samuelsson going the other way to Pittsburgh. He ultimately played 10 seasons with the Flyers, including with Tocchet at the beginning of his second stint with the club.
The former Flyers and Penguins player did join Pittsburgh as an assistant coach just over a decade ago and won back-to-back Stanley Cups in that role. He was most recently with the Columbus Blue Jackets and New Jersey Devils, so it wasn’t hard to envision him making the trip around the Metropolitan Division only to end up back in Philadelphia.
He is ultimately back in Philadelphia as a member of the Flyers Hall of Fame and as an ambassador for the Club, as Spiegel noted. But for now, he won’t be a part of his former teammate’s coaching staff.