Tortorella most disliked coach in the NHL

[FlyguyOX]

Ovechkin seems to hate Tortorella too: Ovechkin scores goal No. 879, Capitals rally past Flyers | NHL.com
From the article it says: "Ovechkin's goal was his 35th against a team coached by John Tortorella, the most he's scored against any opposing NHL coach."

That's what happens when Torts is as tenured as he is, and where three of those teams were division opponents of the caps.

 

[majormajor]

In Columbus he was absolutely beloved by his players. Everyone in the building it seems.

He's still hanging out and chatting with MSL and with the Sedins. A lot of his former players still associate with him.

What this poll is showing is the "Patrick Roy Effect" - the first name that pops in your head.

 

[FlyguyOX]

In Columbus he was absolutely beloved by his players. Everyone in the building it seems.

He's still hanging out and chatting with MSL and with the Sedins. A lot of his former players still associate with him.

What this poll is showing is the "Patrick Roy Effect" - the first name that pops in your head.

Exactly.

 

[Kegs]

This just in. Workers don’t like their boss.

 

[CanadasTeam99]

I'm tired of us always sucking and being a bad team

I hate this coach!

 

[Strawberry Fields]

Torts hit em with one of these when they tried to show him the list:
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And then rambled something about how cell phones shouldn't be in the league and we should go back to rotary phones.

 

[mr figgles]

Kuzmenko knew exactly who was calling, said f***, and let it go to voicemail.

 

[Voight]

Let's retroactively poll players about Scottie Bowman. Or, let's see which coaches players like the most and see how accomplished they are. We'll call it the Laine curve.

“We all hated Scotty [Bowman] 364 days a year. On the 365th day, we collected our Stanley Cup rings.”

- Steve Shutt

 

[Deep Blue Metallic]

It's not a popularity contest.

 

[mr figgles]

“We all hated Scotty [Bowman] 364 days a year. On the 365th day, we collected our Stanley Cup rings.”

- Steve Shutt

“We all hated Jorts 364 days a year. On the 365th day we were golfing.”
-Everyone torts coached that isn’t a senior citizen

 

[Big McLargehuge]

“We all hated Scotty [Bowman] 364 days a year. On the 365th day, we collected our Stanley Cup rings.”

- Steve Shutt

Yeah, but what if Scotty Bowman won one Cup in a very different pre-cap league and then coasted on that one Cup win for decades?

Scotty has 9 f***ing rings as a head coach (with 3 different teams); Torts has 1. The similarities between them end at 'pain in the ass to play for.'

 

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

It just means 38% of the league is soft



He's got the details wrong but not the main point. Babcock actually scratched him in the games leading up to the end of the season, not the last game specifically. But he surely knew by scratching Modano that he wouldn't reach 1500. Modano was just on Spittin Chiclets, check it out

Admittedly I think it's partly me (futilely) being frustrated when people repeat falsehoods and they become fact here.

In the retelling of this story people make it sound as if Babcock found out before the last game of the season and told Modano he was a healthy scratch in the locker room and left him sitting there in his equipment.

The reality is much less salacious. Modano missed much of the season due to a wrist injury and he was honestly pretty bad in his tenure with the Wings. Babcock made him a healthy scratch when there was no longer enough games in the season for Modano to make 1,500.

I doubt that he specifically scratched Modano so he wouldn't make 1,500 games. He likely made Modano a scratch and didn't change his decision when he found out about the number of games. Also, I get that it's a round number but I don't think of 1,500 games as some major milestone like 1,000.

Babcock has done several things that are much worse and factually accurate.