If there is anything that I have personally learned about my sports fandom when it specifically comes to this sport of hockey, it is that I want to enjoy it ...
Going through the typical competition cycle that we have all become too familiar with, the tank-then-playoffs-then-disappointment train that only few teams find alien; or just being a team that is hovering around the playoffs, dipping and diving through the season, and just being consistently there? It is the journey to the result, with no feelings of what they should do or be or become or exist as, that makes it more enjoyable – for me. Without going through the motions of process and all those pains and wasted months, it is possible to continue to truck on with zero expectations for what this team can do on the ice. With this new coach, it does feel like a perfect moment to just accept that this team might just be a meddling, middle, mountainous and messy monopoly of mediocrity. Not thinking about what should happen, or what even can happen, but just coming and going with the ebbs and flows of a regular hockey season. Not to be a downer or killjoy, but there is a different and easier exercise that I have found, relieving and just as satisfying as trying to yell at a computer screen until my favorite team’s manager trades for Underrated Restricted Free Agent No. 3.
He spent this past season working as an analyst at ESPN after mutually parting ways with the Columbus Blue Jackets last spring after six years with the team.
John Tortorella is set to meet with the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday to discuss a contract to become the 23rd head coach in team history. The team finished with a 25-46-11 record and will select fifth overall in next month's draft. Tortorella, 63, is the winningest coach in Blue Jackets history with a 226-166-42 record, guiding the franchise to the playoffs four times.
John Tortorella, the two-time Jack Adams award winner who led the Tampa Lightning to a Stanley Cup in 2004, and the Philadelphia Flyers will have a meeting ...
Philadelphia has clinched just three playoff series since reaching the Stanley Cup Final in 2010. The longtime NHL bench boss most recently coached the Columbus Blue Jackets from 2015 to 2021. Tortorella, 63, has also coached the Lightning, New York Rangers and Vancouver Canucks. He won a Stanley Cup with the Lightning in 2004 and was the first American-born coach to reach 500 career NHL wins.
The two-time Jack Adams award winner, who previously coached the Tampa Bay Lightning, New York Rangers, Vancouver Canucks and Columbus Blue Jackets, ...
In his previous stops, Tortorella was well-known for cultivating a culture of accountability among his players. If hired, he would return to the bench as the 23rd head coach in Flyers franchise history. Tortorella is one of only eight coaches to have won the award at least twice. I thought we were a pretty soft team this year in my opinion.” Tortorella, 63, has 20 years of experience has an NHL head coach, which includes a Stanley Cup championship with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2004. “You practice how you play.
Les Bruins ont congédié Bruce Cassidy.. qui a été embauché à peine quelques jours plus tard par les Golden Knights de Vegas, La rumeur envoyant Barry Trotz à ...
Est-ce que Tortorella s’entendra avec les Flyers cette semaine? Chuck Fletcher occupe le poste de DG des Flyers depuis maintenant quatre ans. Il est actuellement analyste sur les ondes d’ESPN, notamment aux côtés de P.K. Subban. Et la rumeur qui envoie John Tortorella à Philadelphie depuis quelques semaines déjà a pris de l’ampleur hier soir. — Kevin Weekes (@KevinWeekes)June 15, 2022 @GrittyNHLover to you ! @NHL @StanleyCup #HockeyTwitter pic.twitter.com/ibAi51BoFf
The now 63-year-old coach had been in NHL roles for what seems like forever, getting his start as an assistant coach with the Buffalo Sabres in 1989. When he ...
His time with the Columbus Blue Jackets gives the most accurate picture of the coach the Flyers might get, and there are definitely some good takeaways there. Tortorella reportedly interviewed with the Philadelphia Flyers for their head coaching vacancy in late May, and the fit between the coach’s infamous personality and the team’s historically aggressive identity seemed just too perfect. It now seems that Tortorella will be back in the fold next season.
John Tortorella will be the new Philadelphia Flyers coach if he accepts their offer, according to a report. He is now at ESPN.
I thought we were a pretty soft team this year in my opinion.” The question: A few of the guys have spoken with a positive sentiment about not finger-pointing. There just wasn’t a lot of practice times” this season due to a somewhat-compressed schedule. Six of his teams were eliminated in the first round. “That’s a good question,” Atkinson replied. You practice how you play, especially when I turned pro.
John Tortorella, winningest coach in Blue Jackets history, nearing deal to become Philadelphia Flyers' next coach.
Larsen guided Columbus to a 37-38-7 record in his first season running the bench and the Jackets’ sixth-place finish in the Metropolitan Division surprised most analysts. That approach could be a boon in a fickle Philadelphia sports market that’s quick to criticize both players and coaches. Assuming they finalize a deal, it takes another NHL coaching vacancy off the table just one day after the Vegas Golden Knights hired recently-fired Boston Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy to replace Peter DeBoer. Tortorella’s tenure in Columbus ended after 2020-21, when he and the team “parted ways” after his contract expired. Under his guidance, Columbus set a franchise record by qualifying for the playoffs in four straight seasons (2016-20) and the Jackets pulled off a stunning first-round sweep of the heavily-favored Tampa Bay Lightning in 2019. Brad Larsen, an assistant during Tortorella’s stint with the Jackets, was hired as the team’s next head coach last summer.
Known for his fiery spirit and sound defensive structure, John Tortorella would take over a Flyers that finished with just 61 points (25-46-11) last season.
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