In the event you assume that profitable two playoff sequence with John Tortorella behind the bench over the 12 years after he left Broadway in 2013 seems to be good on his résumé and is definitely worth the angst that all the time accompanies considered one of his administrations, be my visitor and by all means rent this coach who primarily fired himself once more final week in Philadelphia.
The comb paints the identical broad strokes each time, whether or not in Tampa, New York, Vancouver, Columbus or Philadelphia. The Canucks represented an entire washout, however there was a minimum of fleeting success in all places else till Tortorella now not might get out of his personal manner — which he by no means intends to do, anyway.
It’s all about Tortorella in all places he goes. There’ll all the time be a selected incident — apparently this time, as reported by The Athletic, a one-on-one interplay gone incorrect with a 24-year-old participant named Cam York — or a preponderance of proof that the coach’s old-school method has reached the diminishing-returns portion of this system.
In a league the place essentially the most constantly profitable groups have coaches who lean younger, or a minimum of belief younger, will you please determine the final marquee prospect to have soared underneath the scared-straight philosophy of Tortorella, who lastly has simply turn out to be one other recyclable within the overstock bin?
