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...
played plenty scoring
I thought we played well enough to win. We had plenty of scoring chances, and we just didn't finish.
eight five played scoring
I thought we played very well, but do the math. Eight scoring chances, five goals. It's frustrating.
played road solid team tougher trying
What we've been trying to do is be a tougher team to play against. I thought we played a good, solid road game.
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.
chance feeling gets great minutes next played situation time trying
He's got to go down and play. The next time he gets a chance here, and it could be this year, you have to come in with the mind-set that you need to try to make a difference. I don't think he played badly, I just don't think it was a situation where he was trying to make a difference. He was just kind of feeling his way through it a little bit. And the minutes he was getting, it doesn't give him a great opportunity.
finding looked played tired
We looked tired and I think they were tired, but I still think they played hard. It's finding a way.
four goals occasional played
I'd just like to get a save. It's tough. I didn't think Grahame played well. You give up four goals on 17 shots. We need the occasional save.
along bona guy hockey national played
He's a guy we're still making assessments on. Has he played poorly? No. Has he done enough things to be a bona fide National Hockey Leaguer? No. So we'll see as we go along with him.
created finding minutes net offence period played puck putting situation third
From our goaltending right on out, I thought we played well, I thought we played hard, I thought we created a lot of offence but you're still in the situation where you're not putting that puck in the net when you have those chances. The 20 minutes in the third period was very important in just finding a way.
enter games good played team themselves
This team should feel like we can play in these games. They've played in enough important games and they should feel good about themselves when they enter them.
anybody best bit certainly couple game league middle past played players single step time
You look at a lot of the other studs in the league this is the time when your best players need to step up and Marty, certainly the past couple of nights, he has been our best player offensively. I don't want to single anybody out because I think we have played well as a team, but you have to give him a little bit of credit. His game is different than it was in the middle of the year.
major played
We've played well at times, and other times we haven't. It's having the right answer. If we don't have it, then we're in a major hole.
atlanta change fortunate good last offensive people played
We just froze. Atlanta has some good offensive people and we couldn't change the momentum. The way we played the last two periods, we're fortunate to get two points.
good johnny played problem sean time
Sean has played well at a very important time of year. Johnny will get a start. If we can get the two of them going, it's a good problem to have.