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...
honor
It was cheap. There is no honor in it.
last
It's a win, it's two points, but more important is how we did it. It's not what you do last year, it's what you do right now. That's what I think we re-established for tonight's game.
bit captain overrated respect
That's out of respect for David. A captain is only a letter. That's a bit overrated at times, too.
deal shoot stay verbal wall
That's the deal we made. A verbal deal. If you shoot the puck, you'll stay there. If you don't, we'll put you back down on the wall somewhere.
calm feed influence
That's a calm influence from the goaltender on out, and that does feed out through the team.
heart maligned obscene
That little (extremely obscene word). He's been so much maligned this year. His heart was as big as the building.
dead face far intensity marty team tonight
That little (expletive). Let's face it, Marty was dead on tonight as far as his intensity and how he wanted to try to put the team on his back.
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.
involved ready
We're getting ready for playoffs. I'm not going to get too involved in this game. ... We'll be ready to play. We're right where we want to be.
goes ottawa series third turn won
We've won one game, that is it. I think what we did is just turn this into a series. ... As the series goes on, you have to play better. We know Ottawa is going to play better the third game.
answer deer goal obviously reason
We started out really well. But for some reason after they scored their goal we were like deer in headlights. I don't have an answer for that, but obviously that has to be cured.
business care home job question successful
There is no question we have to do a better job at home. To be successful in this league, you have to take care of business at home and we haven't always done that.