Kshahdoo
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The dude can do his job. Flyers' roster is probably bottom 6 in the whole league, but the team's results are much better than this.
Because he’s a loudmouth blowhard jackass and his schtick gets old fast??
That was a sure win every Canadian team loses in the finals.I love Torts! Strict no nonsense coach who led us to our franchise to our first ever cup win. While he's hard on his players, he also stands up for them.
Shelf life like Darryl Sutter.
This.
There is a class of coach out there who are just absolute taskmasters. I'm convinced they run their practices with a cat-o-nine tails and compulsory bag skating. They get results, but there are diminishing returns to their drillmaster style of coaching. So they have a fantastic first year (possibly even Jack Adams honors), then a substandard second year, and then after three years the players just start tuning them out and the team collapses, and they are fired. Then some other team picks them up and the process repeats itself.
Torts fits this mold but he's got far worse company. It also applies to older coaches like Herb Brooks, Pat Burns and Jacque Lemaire, and also Tippett, Babcock, Hitchcock, Sutter. You can probably think of more.