When Ron Hextall met with reporters during last week’s prospect development camp, the Flyers general manager said the team wasn’t all that close in naming a new head coach at the AHL level.
Turns out he was pretty close after all.
The Flyers announced Monday morning that Scott Gordon has been named the new head coach of the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. Gordon, 52, fills the void left by Terry Murray, who left the organization to assist new Buffalo Sabres coach Dan Bylsma at the NHL level.
Gordon was the head coach of the New York Islanders from the start of the 2008 season until being fired in mid-November after the team limped to a 4-10-3 start.