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...
four goals hell johnny occasional trying
We need an occasional save. Johnny is trying like hell but four goals in 16 shots. It's deflating.
nervous
We were a little nervous in the first period.
played result supposed team win
We're right where we want to be. You want to play the team that is supposed to win it. The result (Tuesday) was not there, but we have played better.
craziest games goals involved seen
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.
fortunate last obviously periods played trying win
We're just trying to get points. Obviously we wanted two and wanted to win in regulation, but you know the way we played the last two periods I think we're very fortunate to get two points.
ask-me ifs asks
Ask me a question. Don't say talk about it, ask me a question. I'm not going to talk about it if it isn't a question.
reality games organization
As an organization, would we like to be in a better spot Everybody would like to know they're in the playoffs. But that's not a reality, year after year being in a playoff spot with 10, 12, 15 games left. We don't have that this year, so our playoffs have started.
hockey play wish
Because he stinks on the power play. He stinks. I don't know why. I wish I could put him on the power play, but every time I put him on, he stinks.
hockey games focus
I focus on the dumbness of Hagelin... He played a hell of a game but that's all washed off from dumbness.
quiz i-can
You can tell James Duthie to shove that quiz. I have a few other words I can tell you about the quiz.
dream dare-to-dream dare
Dare to do what you dare to dream.
bad bring knew offense
We knew we had to bring some more offense (in the third) and we take a bad penalty.
guys problems three time
We have no problems with those three guys being in the lineup this time of year.
goes ottawa series third turn won
We've won one game, that is it. I think what we did is just turn this into a series. ... As the series goes on, you have to play better. We know Ottawa is going to play better the third game.