John Tortorella Named (Part Time) Head Coach Discussion

[kudymen]

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[Beef Invictus]

I missed that...who told Tortorella to use Frost better?

It has been reported that his higher ups in hockey ops did after he had been slipping Frost on the 4th line.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Torts had the Flyers playing most games this year, even opposing teams said they were hard to play against .
He wanted a different view of the players during the last games, maybe discussing matters with Briere, who knows .....
Keep moaning .....kennies are gonna kenny

Opposing teams didn't have any additional trouble beating the team, so what's the point?

Everyone defending Tortorella is gonna end up looking like everyone who defended AV. Like AV, Tortorella is a failure. His days of relevance are far in the past. He admitted he doesn't know what he's doing, he's admitted he isn't going to even try to work with players. Why is this guy getting pumped up after delivering a season devoid of any actual tangible results? Clearing the very low bar of "harder to play against than last year" isn't impressive.

 

[Curufinwe]

Neither AV or Yeo could get Frost to play well.
He's coming off his first good season of his career at 23.
Guess some players need to be pushed.

This is grotesquely dumb, even for you.

AV had Frost for 20 games when he was 20. Yeo had Frost for 55 games when he was 22 and coming off major shoulder surgery. Torts actively tried to ruin Frost's chances of being a point producer by playing him with worst-in-the-league 4th line wingers, and had to be ordered to play him in the top 9 by Hockey Ops.

 

[kudymen]

Laviolette didn’t get Couturier to play well. Guess he needed Berube to push him

 

[04hockey]

Opposing teams didn't have any additional trouble beating the team, so what's the point?

Everyone defending Tortorella is gonna end up looking like everyone who defended AV. Like AV, Tortorella is a failure. His days of relevance are far in the past. He admitted he doesn't know what he's doing, he's admitted he isn't going to even try to work with players. Why is this guy getting pumped up after delivering a season devoid of any actual tangible results? Clearing the very low bar of "harder to play against than last year" isn't impressive.

judging Torts after one year isn't fair

he didn't have Coots or Atkinson, Hayes and tda and jvr(first half) played when they felt like it

give the new front office some room and time to make changes

they had a bad year, why keep harping on a dead horse ?

there's some encouraging prospects on the way .....

we ALL should hold off until this time in 2024

JMHO

 

[Curufinwe]

The guy who takes random nights off from doing his job is currently giving a lecture on accountability.

 

[Beef Invictus]

judging Torts after one year isn't fair

he didn't have Coots or Atkinson, Hayes and tda and jvr(first half) played when they felt like it

give the new front office some room and time to make changes

they had a bad year, why keep harping on a dead horse ?

there's some encouraging prospects on the way .....

we ALL should hold off until this time in 2024

JMHO

I'm judging Tortorella on the last 20ish years. This isn't a new coach, and it's also a coach who brags about refusing to change and adapt.

The front office has trumpeted they're giving him influence over roster choices. The guy who takes Barkov over McDavid, and spent most of the year trying to make a Cates with bottom -quartile offense his 1C.

JVR wasnt lazy. JVR bought fully into Tortorella style hockey, which happens to waste his entire skillset.

The Tortorella fans assured me he would fix Hayes and TDA, while I assured them he wouldn't.

Couturier and Atkinson aren't anywhere near good enough to make much difference.

 

[04hockey]

Totrs name is on the Cup .....is yours ?

 

[TB87]

“He prefers they initiate.”

This guy is such a lazy f***:

***I forgot that I had another Twitter account. That was a fun find after the other one got permanently suspended …for reasons I still don’t know.***

 

[Amorgus]

I recall hearing much about how Tortorella would extract the secret upside from TDA.

Is his secret upside getting the whites whiter in the laundry room? His other "club" is very strict about that.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Now will the coach ever learn how to accept accountability? I have my doubts.

 

[Rebels57]

“He prefers they initiate.”

This guy is such a lazy f***:
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***I forgot that I had another Twitter account. That was a fun find after the other one got permanently suspended …for reasons I still don’t know.***

 

[TB87]

Now will the coach ever learn how to accept accountability? I have my doubts.

“I’m an asshole and it’s surprising that they aren’t responding well to it. This is a mystery Dr. Watson!”

 

[TB87]

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Yep! Absolutely no idea why. I’d get it if I constantly made fun of Elon because he’s a sensitive bitch boy…but I didn’t. It’s really weird

 

[Rebels57]

Yep! Absolutely no idea why. I’d get it if I constantly made fun of Elon because he’s a sensitive bitch boy…but I didn’t. It’s really weird

I've been perma-banned since 10/31/2020 for a fairly harmless tweet lol

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

 

[VladDrag]

what a jackass statement.

 

[Rebels57]

The bottom line is, Tortorella is VERY clearly unfit to coach todays athletes in todays NHL. Of all of the dinosaurs in the league, he is the the king, the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Plenty of older coach's have shown the ability to adapt, but he proudly refuses. They'll never win a playoff series with him behind the bench and if he goes into management, he will contribute to another decade of futility.

 

[VladDrag]

But I thought only one former player didn't like Torts.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

I personally like that statement that Torts refuses to approach a player to talk 1 on 1. The player has to approach him.

Great communicator that guy is.

 

[freakydallas13]

Totrs name is on the Cup .....is yours ?

Considering your username and absolute need to defend everything Torts does, I have reason to believe you are Torts.

 

[Appleyard]

Those statements...

sheesh... making it a generational thing "these guys today" inferring guys are soft, saying believes in basically always calling out things in front of everyone, and happy it creates division and tension, saying is open but wont speak to players, not liking specific "styles" of play. Not exactly a surprise, it is who he has always been but yeh... the league has moved on.

We have Tony Pulis as a coach when the top teams have Jurgen Klopps and Pep Guardiolas.

Fine for a relegation battle... but yeh... there are no relegation battles in the NHL.

 

[Starat327]

Those statements...

sheesh... making it a generational thing "these guys today" inferring guys are soft, saying believes in basically always calling out things in front of everyone, and happy it creates division and tension, saying is open but wont speak to players, not liking specific "styles" of play. Not exactly a surprise, it is who he has always been but yeh... the league has moved on.

We have Tony Pulis as a coach when the top teams have Jurgen Klopps and Pep Guardiolas.

Fine for a relegation battle... but yeh... there are no relegation battles in the NHL.

John 'Big Sam' Tortorella.

 

[Appleyard]

John 'Big Sam' Tortorella.

I doubt Torts ever scored a header from his own 6 yard box... lmao.

I also know who I would bet on in a fight.