Tribute The Official "Fire Tortorella" Thread

[landsbergfan]

I loved Darroll Powe.

The first Flyers 4th liner I irrationally loved was Branko Radivojevic

 

[Audible Velvet]

You could always spot an Authentic Clown by the way they talked about Raffl. Just about the perfect bottom 6 forward, aside from his regular injuries and poor shot blocking technique.

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And for a guy who had 160 P (151 ES, 4 PP, 6 SH) in 504 games for the Flyers, he was cheap.

2 x $1.1m

3 x $2.35m

2 x $1.6m

I’m guilty if being overly fond if his play, but there’s no denying his value.
If anything, he was underrated by most.
Good skater, could play “physical game”, smart, good with possession, good at checking, not the best finisher.

 

[Curufinwe]

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

G said after that game Raffl said something like "I got this, boys" before that shot. G called him a funny guy. Good stuff

 

[FLYguy3911]

The first Flyers 4th liner I irrationally loved was Branko Radivojevic

FYI- his son looks like a pretty good prospect for next year.

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[Beef Invictus]

The first Flyers 4th liner I irrationally loved was Branko Radivojevic

Hathaway would be that for me if he wasn't so absurdly vicious. Putting aside all other management -based context.

 

[Beef Invictus]

G said after that game Raffl said something like "I got this, boys" before that shot. G called him a funny guy. Good stuff

I remember there being a few other off ice segments where it was made clear that Raffl is hilarious.


The Rafflcopter is up there with Carcillo's playoff OT winner as my favorite celebrations

 

[chadateit]

Young Beef came away from the 00 playoffs certain that Boucher would be our long term foolproof solution in net. Then he taught me some important things about the nature of goaltending in the NHL

I think we all thought that about Boucher.

Count me in the "Pitkanen will be a star" crew.
I thought Meyers was gonna be a 1st pair guy.
I also thought Farabee was a sure fire high end 2-way 1st line winger.

 

[deadhead]

I think we all thought that about Boucher.

Count me in the "Pitkanen will be a star" crew.
I thought Meyers was gonna be a 1st pair guy.
I also thought Farabee was a sure fire high end 2-way 1st line winger.

You may still be right about Farabee, he's taken his game up a level so far.

 

[BillDineen]

Russ Cohen criticized Torts and the org for having Belpedio playing 10min just because Torts "doesn't have to think about him".

Says they should have Attard up to see if he can help the PP. I mean why not?

 

[Fight4yourRight]

I had an irrational love for the acquisitions of Zhamnov, Markov and Malahkov.

Speaking of favourite celebrations, Markov’s pre- OT winner against the Devils in the playoffs remains top 3.

 

[Curufinwe]

Torts record as Flyers coach is now .453 (26th)

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2.72 GF/GP (27th) and 3.34 GA/GP (23rd)

PP is 14.4% (32nd), Net PP% is 10.7% (32nd)

PK is 75.4% (27th), but the net PK is 80.9% (20th) thanks to all the SHGs.

 

[macleish1974]

Can we be on track and say......Fire the MFer. OK.....ultimate 3rd and 4th liners Bob Kelly and Don Saleski. An old timer what do I know. But still FIRE the idiot.



Fun song in '68 to play on the radio; full blast on cheesy car speakers in that year. I even had a third speaker on the cheezy back ledge of my '66 Plymouth Fury. FM radio on a car radio in 1968, must be some funny looking car from Germany with a Blaupunkt.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

I guess the other question boils down to, at what point, realistically, does the Flyers management start to question whether he should be fired or not? If the Flyers are sinking even further in the next 15 to 20 games, I could see it happen.

There are too many issues, too few fixes and one dipshit coach who thinks he's doing nothing wrong.

 

[ajgoal]

Nobody is going to begin asking themselves whether they should fire him when not firing him was a core requirement of the GM and PHO "searches" this summer.

Even so,

Fire Torts

 

[Rich Nixon]

I guess the other question boils down to, at what point, realistically, does the Flyers management start to question whether he should be fired or not? If the Flyers are sinking even further in the next 15 to 20 games, I could see it happen.

There are too many issues, too few fixes and one dipshit coach who thinks he's doing nothing wrong.

yeah that's not gonna happen.

for one, they're not gonna fire him in-season barring like, a legal incident. they already fired two coaches in-season in the past 6 seasons. bad as Torts is, having a shitty interim only works to f*** player development and confidence up even further.

two, I think the only chance he eats it this offseason is if they regress severely while continuing to alienate/diminish trade assets. I'm talking like, a 23-win season without catastrophic injuries to blame. they would need an outcome so clearly worse that the "set a new standard/winning culture" bullshit becomes indefensible even to the most craven Kool-Aid addicts.

 

[Curufinwe]

for one, they're not gonna fire him in-season barring like, a legal incident

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Torts record as Flyers coach is now .453 (26th)

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2.72 GF/GP (27th) and 3.34 GA/GP (23rd)

PP is 14.4% (32nd), Net PP% is 10.7% (32nd)

PK is 75.4% (27th), but the net PK is 80.9% (20th) thanks to all the SHGs.

It's weird, because that makes him look like a f***ing terrible piece of shit.

 

[pit]

Pitkanen was going to hit Norris level. I suspect I’m not alone in this one.

To..umm..totally alooooone?

(says the guy who joined hfboards and created this username specifically to talk about him)

 

[GKJ]

If the fans completely turn on Torts, they will move him off the bench. They are obsessed with placating the fan base right now, but they’re not going to do something before they have to.

 

[Winston Wolf]

Pitkanen was the chosen one. Then he turned out to be a booger eater that lived in a hotel room with his mom.

This whole Flyers fandom thing is totally awesome.

 

[BernieParent]

He’s not completely useless like AV. He does bring structure in a sense of professionalism, how to show up and work everyday. As much as that gets made fun of, that is important when trying to perform at the highest level. It’s also clear that he takes care of his players….If you’re not…

To say Torts doesn’t have some value, that’s not true. But he also brings a measurable amount of negative value. It’s clear that he has ‘his guys,’ that is players who get more rope than others. It’s clear that he doesn’t understand and/or value high end skill as much as it should, it’s clear he’s not a good communicator in that he doesn’t (at least last year didn’t) talk to players one on one. His personality is divisive by nature. He will purposefully scratch players in their hometown to send a message. And his worst trait, he thinks he’s the smartest person in the room, and only thinks his way is correct.

This rubs players and mgmt the wrong way. It’s why he has a shelf life of 3-5 years.

Literally.

[Curse you, automerge!!!]

I was wrong.

I am currently wrong.

I will continue to be wrong.

 

[Flyerfan4life]

I guess the other question boils down to, at what point, realistically, does the Flyers management start to question whether he should be fired or not? If the Flyers are sinking even further in the next 15 to 20 games, I could see it happen.

There are too many issues, too few fixes and one dipshit coach who thinks he's doing nothing wrong.

Torts will move up not out.

next HC will be Lappy or "Fight me" boi...

 

[Limeyjim]

Always intrigued by Knoblauch.

I didn't complain about Laviolette. But that's because he was competent overall in a way we haven't seen from a Flyers coach since he was fired.

Knoblauch is a very good coach, but is he available?

 

[Beef Invictus]

Knoblauch is a very good coach, but is he available?

He's still with the Rangers affiliate. Don't see why we wouldn't be able to hire him out of there.

I just don't think the team ever would. He was hired by Hextall and this petty shitbutt management group can't touch that.