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...
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.
advantage beat job lost net puck score team third
We need to score more goals. We had opportunities to put the puck in the net and weren't able to get the job done. I've said we're not going to beat this team 1-0 and we lost in the third period. We just have to take advantage of our chances.
beat goal haunt knew second sooner team trying
You are not going to beat that team 1-0 and trying to get that second goal is important. We couldn't do it. You kind of knew that it was going to come back and haunt you sooner or later.
four respect
You can't be doing the things you were doing four years ago right now. You have to show them the respect that they have grown. And they have grown.
came concentration continue far level sloppy three tremendous
We came back three times. It was tremendous as far as that's concerned. But as far as our concentration level and what we have to do to continue to get better, I thought we were a sloppy team.
continue good maybe plow
We'll just continue to plow away. And maybe some good things will happen.
business influence miss question steady
We're all going to miss Rammer, there's no question about that. But we have to go about our business. He has always been a very steady influence to everything and we'll miss him.
bad bring knew offense
We knew we had to bring some more offense (in the third) and we take a bad penalty.
against both forward playing teams
Both teams really look forward to playing against one another.
jersey spent team time
New Jersey must be a very disciplined team considering all the time we spent in their end zone.