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...
along felt positive third weak
In the third period, we got to (Emery). That's important. I think that's their weak spot. I felt the third period, that's the positive you take out of that (loss), along with some other things.
fight fingers point simply stick stuff team together
If you don't stick together as a team here through some of the this stuff and point fingers and simply show no fight at all? It can't happen.
coming react
I don't know how we're going to react coming in off of this. That's my concern.
ability against anybody bringing far league skating speed strength
He's a real interesting project. I'll put him up against anybody in this league as far as skating ability, as far as speed and the strength that he brings, bringing pucks to the net.
beating damage far fighting guy himself key season time year
He's a guy who's been beating himself up all year long. But at the key time, the time and place we are right now where we are fighting to get in, you can do a lot of damage as far as what your season is about. And that's what he's doing.
bit earned guy hockey league national number quite seen speak team type veteran
He's a guy who hasn't been with the team and a veteran guy who has seen quite a bit of things in the National Hockey League on a number of teams. I think he has earned the right to speak in that type of meeting.
nice physically
We're tired. We could've used the day off (Tuesday). It will be nice for them to get the day off. They can use it physically and mentally.
occasional tired
We're tired of the 25-per-cent rule. We need an occasional goddamn save.
add along blue changes depth line looking major teams
We're not looking to make a lot of major changes. We would like to add some depth on our blue line along with 29 other teams in this league. But we're not looking to make changes to the core.
anybody finishing good mentality problems
To me, that's the really good thing here. It's the mentality of the team: they just keep on going. ... We're having problems finishing our chances, but it's not getting anybody down. We just try to keep on going.
certain coaching few games matter points run situations stuff teach time worry
This time of year, with so few games left, I still think we need to do some coaching we can't just let them run and not teach in certain areas, but in these situations you need to get the points no matter how you do it. Then we'll worry about the other stuff after.
chance chances scoring
We had a chance to win. We doubled them in scoring chances and we don't score.
against both forward playing teams
Both teams really look forward to playing against one another.
continue good maybe plow
We'll just continue to plow away. And maybe some good things will happen.