When the Philadelphia Flyers pulled the plug on the Alain Vigneault era on Monday after 22 games, it marked the ninth time the club has made a head coaching change midseason.
Ironically, the bench boss taking over for Vigneault — Mike Yeo, at least in the interim — was himself a victim of this very in-season change when the St. Louis Blues fired him after 21 games in 2018-19. That team, of course, went on to win the Stanley Cup with former Flyers coach Craig Berube behind the bench as the interim.