John Tortorella popped off after another Philadelphia loss — the sixth straight on his watch — and declared he was not interested in learning how to coach a losing team in another empty season. It’s not his worry anymore.

The Flyers fired Tortorella on Thursday with nine games left in another losing season for a franchise that hasn’t been in the playoffs since 2020. The Flyers are last in the Metropolitan Division at 28-36-9 for 65 points under the notoriously brusque Tortorella. The Flyers suffered their sixth straight loss Tuesday night, 7-2 to Toronto. Tortorella, who won a Stanley Cup with Tampa Bay in 2004, said after the game he was not “really interested in learning how to coach in this type of season, where we’re at right now.”

“But I have to do a better job,” he said. “So this falls on me, getting the team prepared to play the proper way until we get to the end.”

The Flyers will get to the end without him.

The Flyers named Brad Shaw the interim coach, starting Thursday night against Montreal.

Flyers general manager Danny Briere said the decision to fire the coach with the season inching toward the end wasn’t necessarily because of Tortorella’s comments. He noted they were just “one of things that happened along the way.”