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...
disrespect playing room team worrying
I think the room has really responded. No disrespect to Andy, but this team is worrying about playing better and they're playing very well.
amongst boiling gets ourselves points stay team time together tonight tough within
I think there were things within our team tonight amongst ourselves where it was boiling points and frustration with one another. I think it's very important right now, when it gets to that level, that we've just got to stay together. There are some tough times in a long season. This is the time we need to stay together and just get through it.
add along blue changes depth line looking major teams
We're not looking to make a lot of major changes. We would like to add some depth on our blue line along with 29 other teams in this league. But we're not looking to make changes to the core.
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.
both good great half key teams
We had some great opportunities. In the first half of that game, I thought we had some good opportunities. I think that's the key of the game. Both teams had some opportunities, they scored on a couple, we didn't.
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.
build game team
From where we were before this game to after this game, there are a lot of positives. The team battled hard. We have to build off of that.
bit break gets hockey last needs quarter team type
He needs to be a big part of the team as we go into the last quarter of the season. The way he plays, that's the type of hockey we are going to have to play, the battles. If he gets recharged a little bit during the break I think he will be a big part of the club.
captain care cream grinder ice projected push star team
I don't care if you're projected as the star of the team or the captain of the team. I don't care if you're the grinder of the team. I don't care if you're the ice cream man. If you don't push and play with intensity, you are not going to get your ice time.
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.
closer missing plays team
This was closer to what this team plays like. It's been missing a bit. That's more of the personality of our club, but you have to come back and do it again.
advantage beat job lost net puck score team third
We need to score more goals. We had opportunities to put the puck in the net and weren't able to get the job done. I've said we're not going to beat this team 1-0 and we lost in the third period. We just have to take advantage of our chances.
beat goal haunt knew second sooner team trying
You are not going to beat that team 1-0 and trying to get that second goal is important. We couldn't do it. You kind of knew that it was going to come back and haunt you sooner or later.
build finished hang hat rough shown team tonight whatever
Even through some of the rough spots, the team has shown resiliency. You got to hang your hat on whatever you can right now to try to build some confidence. Tonight we finished the job.