Tuesday, the Flyers sent out a press release announcing the unexpected departure of Lehigh Valley head coach Scott Gordon and assistant Kerry Huffman. The split was a “mutually agreed upon decision,” according to the release.

At InsideAHLHockey.com, there’s a report claiming that Ian Laperriere and Terry Murray will replace Gordon and Huffman:

InsideAHLHockey.com has learned that current Philadelphia Flyers assistant coach Ian Laperriere is the leading candidate to be named the next head coach of the Lehigh Valley Phantoms.

Laperriere, 47, has been an assistant coach with the Flyers’ since the 2013-14 season after playing the final year of his 16-year playing career with the Flyers in 2009-10.

There will also be a familiar face returning behind the Phantoms bench as an assistant.

Terry Murray, who was the head coach of the Phantoms in their inaugural season in Lehigh Valley in 2014-15, is expected to join Laperriere behind the Phantoms bench as an assistant coach next season.

Murray, who will turn 71 in July, also was the head coach of the Flyers’ AHL affiliate from 2012-14 in their final two years as the Adirondack Phantoms.

No clue if Lappy can coach, but Anthony says he’s a good player development guy, so we’ll see how he does. Terry Murray would be a retread hire just to give Lappy some veteran advice or help him along. Oddly enough, the Flyers continue to pull from the same good old boy network even though Paul Holmgren is long gone and Chuck Fletcher has zero connection to these dudes.

You’d like to see the Flyers develop the next exciting, young head coach, and maybe Lappy has the chops to lead a team, but I dunno. Seems like kind of an odd move, if the report is true.