Channelcat
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Among the fans? I think he probably is. But, social media is a different animal.
Would you like a toxic boss? I wouldn't.
Toxic boss who can make you great or good pal with who you will always be mediocre? Tough choice...
Define "toxic". Babcock is toxic, Tortorella isn't.Would you like a toxic boss? I wouldn't.
I think he's a great coach . PeriodThe 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.
Torts has won more cups as a coach than the last 20 "popular" maple leaf coaches combined.
So who cares about popular?
Which is crazy considering he was the whole “safe is death” guy in Tampa.Oh, another aggravating thing about Torts is that he's such a predictably boring coach.
Last night the Flyers took play to Vegas early and were rewarded with a 2-1 lead after the first. Second period they played to a low-event stalemate with a very laid back 2-1-2 approach.
Third period, they went full Guy Boucher 1-3-1, and defaulted to collapsing heavily in their own zone to block shots. They generared little to no third period offense, ceded the lead. They then lost in the final minute as a shot through traffic snuck past a triple-screened Hart because all the bodies they threw in front of him. Along the way, Brink, Atkinson, and Konecny all limped back to the bench after blocking slapshots.
I'm all for trying to WIN games, even as a rebuilder, but to do so I'd rather see youngsters like Brink deployed to try to add insurance to the 1-goal lead, rather than watch him sacrifice his shins to Shea Theodore clappers.
Torts plays for OT. I did the count and I forget the exact number, but something like 40 of his previous 200 games coached before this season ended as an OT/SO loss. As a fan, there's nothing less interesting than watching a team desperately play for an OT loss for a full fifth of the season--particularly when the team is a rebuilder and those meaningless points are just pushing them out of the lottery while.
Last season, he went even further: In OT, he was playing 1F and 2D--so, trying to play entirely for the SO. They went something like 1-8 or 1-9 in OT doing that.
Which is crazy considering he was the whole “safe is death” guy in Tampa.
Because most fans don’t know anything. 9/10 players that go on Spittin Chiclets that use to play for Torts say he was a hard ass, pissed them off and they would run through a wall for him.
Strong disagree with the last part, particularly with the part of his career I’m most familiar with.I mean, that's his mantra here too. And explaining his lineup decisions as "accountability/earning your icetime" when it's really just the same favoritism and preference every coach deploys.
He's a huckster. He sells a bunch of mantras that he doesn't actually stick to in his work.