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...
bottom good guys key
Not good enough. Our key guys didn't produce. Bottom line.
chances felt four fourth goals good net scoring
I felt we did some really good things. I thought our counters were good tonight. We end up with 18 scoring chances to 10 (for Montreal). We can't have four goals go in our net on 10 chances. Especially the fourth goal.
brings couple craig good ryan shown
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.
bite game good great key later power sooner struggled
The key to the game was, I thought our power play was very good early, and Theodore was better. He made some great saves. Later on, I thought our power play struggled and you know it's going to come back and bite you, sooner or later.
enemy good great remember
Remember Good is the Enemy of Great? This year, we need to say that Great is the Enemy of Excellent.
bring certain create good guy player presence situations step stick teammates tough willing within
It's not a fighter. It's not a tough guy. It's not an idiot. It's a guy who is willing to bring a presence and in certain situations step up and stick up for his teammates and create room. But he also has to be a good player to play within a lineup.
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.
goal good lost puck second stunk turned watched
That's an important goal because I thought we stunk in the first period. I think we watched them, we lost a lot of battles, we really turned the puck over. ... That's a good goal to get going into the second period.
almost bad believe confidence eventually good happen lack man people power turn waiting
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.
dangerous good hockey
This is a good hockey team. We get in, if we get in, we're going to be a dangerous hockey team.
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.
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.
maintain
It better not be hard. We have to maintain it.
jersey spent team time
New Jersey must be a very disciplined team considering all the time we spent in their end zone.