Philadelphia Flyers coach John Tortorella isn’t pleased with all facets of his group’s play. At 19-20-6, they’ve some issues that also have to be cleaned up. One such side includes the facility play, and the top coach did not mince phrases in regards to the struggles.
Tortorella was requested forward of Thursday’s recreation about his group having bother coming out and in of energy performs this yr. He responded (2:50) by detailing a state of affairs the place this occurred.
“It is an enormous half,” the coach mentioned. “I simply confirmed you a clip. We get scored on, once we do not rating on the facility play, or up two to at least one, we get scored on, and I put Couturiere, Laughton and Travus Konecny, properly, it was form of an prolonged shift, and we get scored on with TK, Laughts and Coots on the ice.
“And that is what pisses me off essentially the most in regards to the final recreation, is that shift after our energy play, once we did not rating, we did not do the job, we began pondering slightly bit an excessive amount of in regards to the offense, and we give them a two on one, and that finally ends up at the back of our web.”
Tortorella mentioned these are “enormous shifts” throughout a recreation, particularly after they occur with lower than 5 minutes left within the contest. The Flyers ended up shedding their final contest 3-2 in a shootout with the Columbus Blue Jackets.
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John Tortorella would not conceal his feelings from anybody, particularly not media personnel. They may know precisely how he feels a couple of given subject. Within the case of Rasmus Ristolainen, Tortorella mentioned earlier this week (through Newsweek):
“You [media] guys hate him. Write all this s**t. I should not say hate. Not the right phrase to make use of in in the present day’s world. I simply really feel he is been below a microscope since I bought right here.”
He mentioned that Ristolainen has was a “fairly good” Flyer, and he is not pleased with how the media handled him up to now.
Edited by Krutik Jain