Tribute The Official "Fire Tortorella" Thread

[BrindamoursNose]

Bowness, Brunette, Tocchet up for top NHL coach

The Jets' Rick Bowness, Predators' Andrew Brunette and Canucks' Rick Tocchet are finalists for this year's Jack Adams Award, which is given to the coach who "contributed the most to his team's success."

www.espn.com

There must be a typo. Tortorella's name isn't on there all 3 times.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Alas!

 

[Flyerfan4life]

Bowness, Brunette, Tocchet up for top NHL coach

The Jets' Rick Bowness, Predators' Andrew Brunette and Canucks' Rick Tocchet are finalists for this year's Jack Adams Award, which is given to the coach who "contributed the most to his team's success."

www.espn.com

weird... i thought Torts was piling up the wins ?

 

[CerpinTaxt]

He shoulda won coach of the year on culture alone. They are still a loser franchise but at least John has...

 

[renberg]

I’m stunned by the amount of pro Tortorella stuff being promoted at various media outlets. Like he made this team so good that they almost made the POs. These folks don’t understand that his moves were the reasons why the Flyers didn’t make the POs. These people are into pushing the vibe that the players aren’t tough like they were in the past and need a Tortorella boot camp to whip them into shape. One guy went into why Tortorella is more important than any of the players. If this mentality takes over Briere and Jones, the organization is doomed.

 

[Flyerfan4life]

I’m stunned by the amount of pro Tortorella stuff being promoted at various media outlets. Like he made this team so good that they almost made the POs. These folks don’t understand that his moves were the reasons why the Flyers didn’t make the POs. These people are into pushing the vibe that the players aren’t tough like they were in the past and need a Tortorella boot camp to whip them into shape. One guy went into why Tortorella is more important than any of the players. If this mentality takes over Briere and Jones, the organization is doomed.

ummm thats been the mentality for 50 years..

and yes it is all f***ed. until the oldbois die off they will never stop being the guiding light of input

 

[EdmFlyersfan]

Hiring Torts in a nutshell is a short term gain for long term pain...

 

[renberg]

'No one is spared': Tracing Mike Babcock's imperious NHL coaching career

His complicated coaching legacy includes championships, big paydays and charges of mistreatment and mental torment.

www.nytimes.com

This article is well done. It seems like you could substitute Tortorella for Babcock in a lot of places. Abusive bullying going on with these guys. Captain Kangaroo, Ken Hitchcock, is right there with them. You can see why Babcock and Hitch are out of the game. Today’s players aren’t going to respond well to this type of crap. Torts may well be joining them soon. Unfortunately in some corners of the league these types hold sway.

 

[Flyerfan4life]

'No one is spared': Tracing Mike Babcock's imperious NHL coaching career

His complicated coaching legacy includes championships, big paydays and charges of mistreatment and mental torment.

www.nytimes.com

This article is well done. It seems like you could substitute Tortorella for Babcock in a lot of places. Abusive bullying going on with these guys. Captain Kangaroo, Ken Hitchcock, is right there with them. You can see why Babcock and Hitch are out of the game. Today’s players aren’t going to respond well to this type of crap. Torts may well be joining them soon. Unfortunately in some corners of the league these types hold sway.

the Flyers will continue to shed the players NOT Torts...