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...
felt games good hockey quick time
I've already made that decision, he's not going to play all the games this year. We felt this is a really quick hockey team. It was a good time to get a different look.
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Ryan Craig has shown us that he can kill penalties, and he has scored a couple of goals. He's good around the net. He's able to do the little things around the wall. He can play center. So he brings a lot of different things to us.
allow days few night olympic opening playing six start teams
To me it makes no sense that this league, with six games, to come off something like that and allow some teams a few more days than other teams to start it again, it just baffles me. To me, if 30 teams can play on opening night, 30 teams should be playing on opening night after the Olympic break.
depth good happy six
First off, we're happy with the six that are playing; we feel we have six really good defensemen. (But) I think we need more depth there.
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.
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They know it's costing us. I go back to the people we have, eventually that thing has to turn around. I just believe that because we have good players. Right now, we lack so much confidence when we're up a man it's almost like we're waiting that something bad is going to happen to us when we get on the power play.
plays tonight won
They made the big plays tonight and they won the game. We have to play better.
confidence hopefully regain stay time together ways
This is the time we need to stay together and just get through it and find ways to get one win, and then hopefully we can regain some of our confidence and get going in the right direction.
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Your best players need to be your best players and almost dominate games. Or your goaltending dominates a game. You just need some dominating performances, and if you're going to have dominating performances, it's going to come from your best guys. And if you sprinkle two or three of those in six games, and you find a way to win four or five games, that's when you start getting that swagger back.
crazy far happen means race sprint
This is a sprint right now. That's the way we're approaching it. By no means are we set. Too many crazy things happen as far as this race is concerned.
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This is right where we want to be. I understand that they have had some success against us but I think in the past few games we played them, a turn here, a turn there it could have been different. We are looking forward to it. We are right where we want to be as we start our first round. For the past couple of months no one was going to be able to touch them. So we want the opportunity first.
against game good nights plenty positives quality seventh team
No, we'll rebound. They should feel good about how they played. It's our seventh game in 11 nights against a quality team and we've got to just find positives as we go through here and there are plenty of them tonight.