Confirmed with Link: The new coach of the Philadelphia Flyers is John Tortorella

[ponder719]

Pretty sure he spent his last year in Columbus trying to get fired once their roster started moving on.

If he and Fletcher don't agree he'll cash out.

Or Fletch will. Depends on whether Torts ingratiates himself with Scott the way Clarmgren have.

I'd ask for the axe to catch them all, but I know better than to wish for the impossible.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

i don't want to hear that man.give the man benifit of the doubt here and see where it goes.guy is a good coach and will stick up for his players, but also wants results just as much as you fans . give me a J and a O and a H and a N john john john .lol

 

[deadhead]

Pretty sure he spent his last year in Columbus trying to get fired once their roster started moving on.

If he and Fletcher don't agree he'll cash out.

The gig was up once they started selling off pieces after Panarin and Duchene left town.
Torts was burned out, and why would you want to do another rebuild when inevitably your best players would leave in FA.
At least the Flyers have always been able to sign their home-grown stars.

 

[Devonator]

I really hope this isn't true....I don't doubt John's ability as a coach but as a human and his dealings with players has me very very concerned....one can hope though that he has mellowed a bit with age.....overall though I am not thrilled with this....

 

[DancingPanther]

f*** Boston

 

[flyersjim73]

I actually don’t mind Torts as much as many on here.

Having said that, we could have hired Jesus Christ and he’s not saving this team from Fletcher.

 

[AdamParrot]

 

[DancingPanther]

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[Captain3rdLine]

I really hope this isn't true....I don't doubt John's ability as a coach but as a human and his dealings with players has me very very concerned....one can hope though that he has mellowed a bit with age.....overall though I am not thrilled with this....

He’s a demanding coach who has been disliked by some players but it seems like a lot more of his players absolutely love him and talk a lot about how he pushed them and made them better.
Some examples

 

[Captain3rdLine]

What about those who claim he is the best development coach in hockey?


"But...but....players love Torts!"

Clown show.

Here's a bit more detail on that:

“I was thrilled with the trade,” Dubinsky said. “I loved New York and I liked being on a winning team. So I didn’t like getting traded to the worst team in the league. But me and John Tortorella (then the Rangers’ coach) were a shit show during my last year in New York.

“It wasn’t a good year. We weren’t getting along. I didn’t agree with the decisions he was making for me, so for me, Columbus was a fresh start. I was energized and excited. I was back to playing the way I knew how to play.”

He played under coach Todd Richards his first four seasons in Columbus, but when the Blue Jackets started the 2015-16 season with seven consecutive losses, Richards was fired. Blue Jackets management felt as if the next coach needed to have a firmer hand.

Tortorella was hired by the Blue Jackets on Oct. 21, 2015. Dubinsky smirked and said all the right things, but he was privately crestfallen, he said.

“I always respected Todd,” Dubinsky said. “I wish, looking back, that other players would have respected the way he coached and treated them and allowed them to make mistakes. I wish they would have respected him by playing harder for him. His downfall was he wasn’t hard enough on guys.

With budding centers Pierre-Luc Dubois and Alexander Wennberg in the organization, Dubinsky said Tortorella made it clear to him after the 2016-17 season that he should expect a different role when he arrived for training camp in the fall. (He had his first wrist surgery about a month after the season.)

“It was pretty clear he was going to give some younger guys opportunities,” Dubinsky said. “I didn’t agree with it. I came into this league — I know it’s a different league now — but I started on the fourth line and played my way up. I played on the power play and penalty kill because I earned those minutes.

“I felt like he just took those minutes away and gave them to somebody else who hadn’t earned them yet. I didn’t agree with it. I didn’t agree with him and his coaching and obviously that doesn’t work for him. So that was the beginning of the end for him and me.”

Dubinsky always had a big frame, natural strength and a relentless passion for competition, but he was never the most physically fit player on his team. “I certainly didn’t look like a Greek statue,” he said.

Brandon Dubinsky, outspoken as ever, on how it ended with John Tortorella and the Blue Jackets

Dubinsky remains a popular figure at Nationwide Arena but holds no regrets about stepping away from the ice two seasons ago.

theathletic.com

See above but a lot more of his players have had good things to say. Sure some don’t like but from reading this other quote I tweeted it basically just sounds like Dubinsky doesn’t like him because he started giving young guys more opportunities over him. Isn’t that what a team like the flyers wants? Dubinsky sounds kind of old school and like a whiner saying the young players hadn’t earned the opportunities.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Myrtetus defending this hire confirms how bad it is.

 

[captainpaxil]

I can see a very good cop bad cop relationship between torts and lapi.

 

[wankstifier]

$41MM wasted on head coaches.

 

[kudymen]

Great signing! Current myth in the news says that the Flyers hired a coach capable of creating dynasties!
*creating them from his opponents though

 

[Garbage Goal]

Lol we’re so bad we even overpay bad coaching hires.

 

[BritainStix]

It's so difficult to support this team.

Just how, how has Fletcher not been fired?

 

[Breeze 44]

I'm happy with the hire, he'll do just fine.
Added bonus , it pisses off the little coffee clutch of cackling hens in
here that no hire or player signing will make them happy. That group is so smart
that their ONLY contribution to hockey is sitting and yapping about it in a forum and screaming at a T.V screen.

 

[Kelmitchell2]

good luck john in philly. sure appreciate what you did for the jackets. just win baby. the haters will hate but i see you getting coach of the yr real soon partner. do it your way and if the kids can't handle the hard work then bench their asses.

Get the hell out of here and never come back lol

 

[Strawberry Fields]

I'm happy with the hire, he'll do just fine.
Added bonus , it pisses off the little coffee clutch of cackling hens in
here hat no hire or player signing will make them happy. That group is so smart
that their ONLY contribution to hockey is sitting and yapping about it in a forum and screaming at a T.V screen.

Well, I suppose the results don't lie- the last ten years of unmitigated success, exciting hockey, and the numerous championships we've won speak for themselves. We really don't have anything to complain about, do we? Watching the modern Flyers is even better than a trip to the ice cream shop or a day at Disneyland. I, for one, welcome our Bully overlords!

 

[Psuhockey]

Myrtetus defending this hire confirms how bad it is.

This is just a sideshow hire. I don’t think this team has the talent level of the Columbus teams Torts coached to mediocrity. Myrtetus and Meltzer will be working overtime to explain to us uneducated fans how much the Flyers improved as we watch them sit at the bottom of the standings losing games 2-1 all season long.

 

[zukeisgone]

Purple Hayes better be in shape and wean off the blunts…he is Torts first tarrget

 

[Ironmanrulez]

I will crying while laughing about this franchise for the next years. Hopefully Sanheim, Hart, Konecny, Farabee get all traded! I'am done with this franchise more than i ever would have guess! F.U.C.K EVERYONE IN THIS FRANCHISE AND EVERYONE WHO DEFEND THIS FRANCHISE. THIS VOACH. THIS FRONT OFFICE. THIS MEDIA COVERAGE. ALL THE FACEBOOK AND TWITTER CLOWNS.

ITS NOTHING LEFT..... NOTHING!!!!!!

 

[Starat327]

Shame on you for not already abandoning this franchise. All aboard the Avalanche Express. Love me a bad team who just got really lucky.

 

[tucson83]

I will crying while laughing about this franchise for the next years. Hopefully Sanheim, Hart, Konecny, Farabee get all traded! I'am done with this franchise more than i ever would have guess! F.U.C.K EVERYONE IN THIS FRANCHISE AND EVERYONE WHO DEFEND THIS FRANCHISE. THIS VOACH. THIS FRONT OFFICE. THIS MEDIA COVERAGE. ALL THE FACEBOOK AND TWITTER CLOWNS.

ITS NOTHING LEFT..... NOTHING!!!!!!

 

[flyersnorth]

It's so difficult to support this team.

Just how, how has Fletcher not been fired?