John Tortorella
John Tortorella
John Robert Tortorellais the head coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets. Tortorella has held the position of head coach of the Vancouver Canucks, the New York Rangersand the Tampa Bay Lightning. He led Tampa Bay to the 2004 Stanley Cup championship...
both good great half key teams
We had some great opportunities. In the first half of that game, I thought we had some good opportunities. I think that's the key of the game. Both teams had some opportunities, they scored on a couple, we didn't.
loss
We know it's one loss and we're done ... season's over.
best guys last physically possible quarter sure
We'll do it the best way possible to make sure guys are physically able to go in this last quarter (of the season).
We are right where we want to be. Right where we want to be.
start
We did what we had to ... start re-establishing us at home.
nervous
We were a little nervous in the first period.
bench deal five liked nobody point shots
We'll see him five more times, so we have to deal with it. Our big point was to get shots off. What I liked was, nobody on the bench got frustrated.
moved power
Our power play (stinks). We moved the puck, but we didn't produce.
again considered difficult great last season steps team
Our team had a great season last year. But to be considered a great organization, you have to do it again and again. That's the difficult thing. To be considered a great organization, we still have some steps to go.
hope plays
And I hope he plays well. If (Burke) plays well, he's going to go again. This is what we have.
ends knocking net
A lot of pucks are going in our net and that ends up knocking you back.
ends knocking net
A lot of pucks are going in our net and it ends up knocking you back a bit.
almost bad believe confidence eventually good happen lack man people power turn waiting
They know it's costing us. I go back to the people we have, eventually that thing has to turn around. I just believe that because we have good players. Right now, we lack so much confidence when we're up a man it's almost like we're waiting that something bad is going to happen to us when we get on the power play.
gives opportunity team
(They) have not been spectacular, not great, but solid. That gives the team an opportunity to win. That's what we need.