Flyers Fans Begin Mounting Furious Protest Against Head Coach Rick Tocchet

After winning three games in a row towards the end of October, things appeared to be starting to look up again for the Philadelphia Flyers, but the recent run of form that has followed has shown us who this team really is.

Losing nine straight, winning three straight, losing three straight, winning one, then dropping another two is, in fact, a pattern. A pattern of inconsistency. And on the ice, it's a pattern of making the same mistakes over, and over, and over again.

The Flyers' unfathomably bad start to the 2026-27 season has seen pressure quickly begin to build on head coach Rick Tocchet's shoulders, and that started with the very first game of the season, an embarrassing 7-0 loss to the rival Pittsburgh Penguins in the home opener.

After Thursday night's choke job against the New York Rangers, the Flyers are now 0-4-3 against divisional opponents this season, and the increasingly impatient fans have decided they've seen enough of Tocchet.

On Friday, notorious Flyers fan Tony Escargot, the one you may have seen gain infamy on social media through his miraculous feats of sending cannoli to people's houses for free on food delivery apps, started a fundraiser to have a "Fire Rick Tocchet" banner flown over the Xfinity Mobile Arena for the Flyers' game against the Canucks on Nov. 27.

Escargot's $2,000 goal for the banner was met in under an hour, and the goal was later increased to $4,000 to fund an additional anti-Tocchet billboard on I-95 in Philadelphia.

That goal was reached, too, with Escargot pledging on his X account that everything donated past the two goals will go towards Snider Hockey and CHOP.

The damning part of all this is not so much that one fed-up Flyers fan started a movement, but that so many other Flyers fans chipped in their hard-earned money to join in.

For Flyers' ownership, that is money that, instead of going in their pockets for ticket sales or merchandise (like the Hometown Remix jerseys), is going towards a message to rally against the head coach of the team.

Earlier in the season, one or two weeks in, in-arena chants calling for Tocchet's firing were probably premature, and certainly lacking in support.

Now, though, it has become abundantly clear that public pressure is mounting against the Flyers organization as a whole, with the team wallowing away at 30th in the league with a porous 4-10-4 record.

How the front office responds next will shape the immediate future of the franchise.