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Craig Berube Assistant Coach
Craig Berube enters his sixth season as an assistant coach with the Flyers and his 16th
overall season with the club. Berube has been a Flyers assistant coach since August
7, 2008, and also served as an assistant coach for most of the 2006-07 season. He has
been a coach in the organization since 2004, when he was named the assistant coach
of the Philadelphia Phantoms. He served in that capacity for the 2004-05 and 2005-06
seasons and was the head coach of the Phantoms for the first six games of the 2006-07
season and all of the 2007-08 season.
During the 2007-08 season, Berube posted a 49-29-5-3 record as head coach of the
Phantoms and led the team to a second-place finish in the East Division and a trip to the
AHL’s East Division Finals. He was originally named to that position on June 14, 2006.
He was first named a Flyers assistant coach on October 23, 2006, and was re-appointed
as the Phantoms head coach on June 4, 2007.
Berube returned to the Flyers organization for a third time on November 18, 2003 when
he signed with the Phantoms as a player. He was named a player/assistant coach
on January 29, 2004 and moved to full-time coaching the following year. He recorded
six assists and 134 penalty minutes in 33 regular season games for the Phantoms during the 2003-04 season, his 18th and final
professional season.
Over parts of seven seasons with the Flyers (1986-87 through 1990-91, 1998-99 and 1999-2000), Berube recorded 20 goals and 34
assists for 54 points and 1,138 penalty minutes in 323 regular season games. His 1,138 penalty minutes ranks ninth on the Flyers’
All-Time List. He was originally signed as a free agent by the Flyers on March 19, 1986.
Over parts of 17 NHL seasons (1986-87 through 2002-03), Berube registered 61 goals and 98 assists for 159 points and 3,149
penalty minutes in 1,054 career regular season games for the Flyers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Calgary Flames, Washington Capitals
and New York Islanders. His 3,149 career penalty minutes ranks seventh in NHL history.
Berube and his wife, Rebecca, have three children-sons Jake and Nashota and daughter Charlotte. Berube was born on
December 17, 1965.
Kevin McCarthy Assistant Coach
Kevin McCarthy enters his fourth season with the Flyers as an assistant coach. He
joined the organization along with head coach Peter Laviolette on Dec. 4, 2009. It
marked a return for McCarthy to the Flyers organization, where he spent two years
working in the front office from 1990-1992.
McCarthy came to the Flyers after spending 18 years with the Carolina/Hartford
franchise, including 12 consecutive years with the Hurricanes’ coaching staff. He
was a part of the Hurricanes’ 2006 Stanley Cup championship, the first Stanley Cup
title of his career.
McCarthy joined the Hartford organization in 1992 as an assistant coach. He served for
three seasons in that role before being named the head coach of the team’s American
Hockey League affiliate in Springfield, Mass. He spent four seasons coaching the
franchise’s prospects, first in Springfield and later in New Haven, Connecticut.
McCarthy put together a record of 156-123-36 as a head coach, which ranks as the
second-best record in Carolina franchise history for the head coach of the team’s
AHL affiliate.
A former defenseman, McCarthy spent 10 seasons in the NHL with the Flyers, Vancouver and Pittsburgh. In 527 career NHL
games, he totaled 67 goals and 191 assists for 258 points. During his time with Vancouver, he served as the Canucks’ team
captain and was named a starter in the 1981 NHL All-Star Game. McCarthy was selected as number 37 on Vancouver’s list of
the 50 Greatest Canucks in 2005.
Kevin and his wife, Rhonda, have three daughters-Melissa, Meaghan and Mallory.
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