Tribute The Official John Tortorella Appreciation Thread

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Three years too late, but..."Ayyyyyyy":

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I appreciate his tactical knowledge more now that before he joined the Flyers. For all his flaws I cant see much of an argument against his systems working even with low talent.

But I did not appreciate his overall time as Flyers HC!
The more talent his teams have the less his systems work. Increased team talent was his downfall with every team he has coached except the Flyers. The only thing that makes his systems work is a top tier goalie.
 
Did he even help to develop one player? Maybe Sanheim or to a lesser extent Brink, but honestly, it felt like he just bungled things with them, mishandling and getting into their faces, trying to spark something. Not nice and not sustainable.
 
Did he even help to develop one player? Maybe Sanheim or to a lesser extent Brink, but honestly, it felt like he just bungled things with them, mishandling and getting into their faces, trying to spark something. Not nice and not sustainable.

I would argue that he gave them a chance to get meaningful value for a Seeler-shaped pumpkin. The front office bungling that part of it is on them. I'm sure he wanted to keep him too, but to me that's once again on the guy that gave in to the desire.

Cates is kind of a grey area. Was he already developed? I understand both sides of that one. It's probably a mix of both even if I lean more toward him already being a solid depth guy.
 
Did he even help to develop one player? Maybe Sanheim or to a lesser extent Brink, but honestly, it felt like he just bungled things with them, mishandling and getting into their faces, trying to spark something. Not nice and not sustainable.

Brad Shaw is probably more responsible, but I’d argue Risto to some degree as well. Again, it’s the front office that bungled things in getting him initially, and then bungled things again in not selling him when they had a chance to.
 
The fact that this(spoof thread) or the fired one, doesn't have pages and pages of responses already, shows what the Flyers organization has done to it's deepest fanbase. Made them apathetic.

I am a great example. Been a fan since the early 80's...the long Copperall era...lol. Loved the tough hockey they would play WITH skill. The Tochett example being the best.

But they have refused to evolve and continue with archaic nepotism hiring and thinking and it has eroded a passionate fanbase. And the fallout is apathy and tuning in to other options.

They had the chance to REALLY clean house when firing Fletch but again tripled down on their flawed thinking. Shocking it didn't work. Again.

On to the next...let's see if Lappy/Shaw is the next coach so more of the same, or if Briere has stones and hires an actual good coach in the summer.
 
I appreciate how after March 1 the medicore team midas touch would turn into the most laughable biggest turd in the last 20 games every year.

Take a special coach to pull that off every year.
 
His overall record was bad, but it was also slightly inflated by going 11-7 in shootouts thanks to Ersson having a .778 SO Sv%.


97-107-33 = .479 (26th)
73 regulation wins, 13 OT wins, 11 SO wins
107 regulation losses, 26 OT losses, 7 SO losses
.611 SO W% (10th)

2.73 GF/GP (29th)
3.31 GA/GP (25th)

10.9% Net PP (32nd)
83.2% Net PK (8th)
 
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