Take some time off, do it once a week, and still keep your name in the game,” Tocchet said. “I just thought it might be a great year to do it. It’s the first time Turner has had broadcast rights for the NHL, which it split with ESPN after NBC’s contract expired following last season. So after some initial reluctance, he took up TNT’s offer to join its new studio show, which broadcasts around the network’s new weekly NHL doubleheader. After parting ways with the Arizona Coyotes following last season, Tocchet interviewed with a number of teams, but didn’t land anywhere. » READ MORE: Captain Claude Giroux letting his game do the talking in contract yearĪfter his playing days were over, Tocchet transitioned into coaching. “To this day, it still gives me chills to talk about it.” “I played in some loud games in my life - I played for Canada when we played in the World Cup, I played in the Stanley Cup with Pittsburgh - but that’s the loudest I’ve ever heard a crowd go crazy,” Tocchet said. Tocchet’s pinnacle came at the Spectrum in 1987, when the Flyers upset the star-studded and heavily favored Oilers - with his current TNT colleague Wayne Gretzky on the roster - in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals, forcing a Game 7 in Edmonton. The former power forward is ranked 10th in franchise history with 27 goals and 60 points in the Stanley Cup playoffs, and the famed brawler is the Flyers’ all-time leader in penalty minutes at 1,817 in 621 games. “Tocch,” as he’s known to friends and fans, was a core part of a close-knit Flyers squad that reached the Stanley Cup Finals twice in the mid-1980s.
“I think a lot of teams around the league loosely preach family, but they were really a team and an organization that really took care of you.” I really needed that.” Tocchet told The Inquirer. “I spent a large chunk of my life here in Philadelphia - 11 years with the … They took me in as a kid and as part of a family. He and Flyers “ do-everything man” Paul Holmgren will be the first new additions to the selective group of former players and coaches in five years, an honor Tocchet doesn’t take lightly. Tocchet, an NHL analyst on TNT’s new studio show, will be inducted into the Flyers Hall of Fame Tuesday at the Wells Fargo Center ahead of the Flyers matchup against the Calgary Flames. None of them quite stack up with his time in Philadelphia. Rick Tocchet has played for and coached a number of NHL teams over the past 37 years.
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