John Tortorella, the NHL's oldest head coach at age 66, was fired by the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday, two days after the team's 11th loss in 12 games."Today I made the very difficult decision to move on from John as our head coach,

Tortorella’s Flyers, who were apparently on their way to the playoffs last year until spinning through an eight-straight losing streak amid the final few weeks of the season to drop out of contention, have appeared to lose more than mere games in the final weeks of this season.

Philadelphia Flyers Associate Coach, Brad Shaw, has been named interim head coach and will assume duties immediately