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...
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It's one of the craziest games I've ever been involved in. I've never seen so many freakish-looking goals in my life. But we found a way.
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We're playing a pretty good hockey team and Ottawa deserves credit. I've never seen a team that is so opportunistic. You make a mistake and they make it end up in the net. They make you pay. If we're going to win this game, we have to be at our best.
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This was one of the craziest games I've ever been involved with. There were more fluky goals than I've ever seen in my life.
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We talked about this as an organization before we started the season. We felt there were going to be some bumps and quite a bit of adversity coming through, and we've seen it. But it's a learning experience. We are going to have to learn to deal with it. We are going to have to have a better second half, and I believe we will.
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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.
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We tried to win it. So we'll take the point and go from there. In all facets of our game, I was pleased.
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We just wanted to get two points (for the win). But we wanted to win it in regulation.
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We just froze. Atlanta has some good offensive people and we couldn't change the momentum. The way we played the last two periods, we're fortunate to get two points.
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We look so stagnant on our power play. It looks like no one wants the puck.
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We're going through a tough time here with injuries. This situation, things piled up. Three main guys on our team all together. I really respect how our team stayed together and played a game as a team.
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I've tried to work with him this year. I remember I told him a few weeks ago, I said, 'Arty, don't worry about anything, just go and hit as hard as you possibly can.' He proceeded to go out and take four penalties. So, it's kind of a give and take here. But we want him to play hard. And the book on Arty is that he goes up and down as far as his readiness to play. But remember, he is a raw talent. And still a very young man, and you have to live with some of those bumps.
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It was totally the opposite from the effort of the San Jose game.
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It was an exciting game. I thought we struggled early, all of us right on through the lineup and I felt the whole team kept themselves together.
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I still can't figure it out, how quickly it happened for us.