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...
four goals occasional played
I'd just like to get a save. It's tough. I didn't think Grahame played well. You give up four goals on 17 shots. We need the occasional save.
damn
I don't give a damn about the Leafs. We're not going to look over our shoulder.
believer game increase increased intensity limit statement
I don't know why it should increase intensity. Our intensity should be increased to the limit right now, with where we're at. I'm not a big believer in statement games, measuring sticks, four-point games. I think every game is important.
care chance definitely finding giving nights past starts
I don't care how it looked, it's about finding a way and it starts with your goaltending giving you a chance and the past two nights we have definitely got that.
captain care cream grinder ice projected push star team
I don't care if you're projected as the star of the team or the captain of the team. I don't care if you're the grinder of the team. I don't care if you're the ice cream man. If you don't push and play with intensity, you are not going to get your ice time.
absolutely bad coaching help hockey point presented team
My little tirade, that doesn't help, absolutely not. That's a bad coaching reaction. That doesn't help the hockey team right now. I have my feelings, but it does not have to be presented that way at this point with this team.
days sixth
Right now, after the first (few) days of camp, our sixth defenseman is not here. We still have 21/2 weeks.
intimidate philly
Philly is not going to intimidate us. No chance.
good johnny played problem sean time
Sean has played well at a very important time of year. Johnny will get a start. If we can get the two of them going, it's a good problem to have.
bit energy good maybe ourselves third tonight
Maybe tonight was a little bit of a let down. But I thought we showed enough energy to get ourselves back in it and then we had a good third period.
jersey spent team time
New Jersey must be a very disciplined team considering all the time we spent in their end zone.
played road solid team tougher trying
What we've been trying to do is be a tougher team to play against. I thought we played a good, solid road game.
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.
against best coaching concept defense jay last maybe open staff strict teams whoever
As with 29 other teams, defense is always a concern. I know Jay is looking. We do have a budget, as all of the teams do, and we have to find the right piece. It may come up to the last day of the preseason to see if something is there. Maybe it doesn't. All we can do as a coaching staff and as a team is whoever is here when we open up against Boston, we are going to try to play under a strict team concept and do the best we can.