1/4 Practice: John Tortorella

Hear from forward Torts following Saturday’s practice in Toronto.

16 comments
  1. Danny's stagnating certain players (Michkov, for instance) with incompatible playing partners. Needs to pull the trigger SOON on some kind of trade. Make it happen. The whole world can see the needs the Flyers have.

  2. More softball questions from these spineless reports who are scared to death of Tortorella. How bout asking why there isn’t a goaltender in the organization with a .900 save %

  3. I cannot FATHOM the mental r**ardation of a person who thinks that teaching Michkov how to defend or how to play without the puck will somehow make him UNLEARN all of his offensive talents.
    ????????????????????????????????? Someone make it make sense!

  4. How these questions SHOULD go… “Torts, seeing how you are winning about 1.5 games out of every 3, do you feel you will be 6, 8 or 10 points out of the playoffs come April?”

  5. I honestly think Torts is an amazing coach. This year is already done I really expected a lot. Hopefully next year we see the playoffs. Typical

  6. It is good for Torts to go into the details and even repeating himself with these interview questions about Michkov. We see the Vinny Lecavalier question comment from the reporter and how it led to explaining his understanding of adding a general defensive awareness to Michkov, and that he couldn't have won the cup with Tampa if Vinny didn't become great at that side of the game: playing well without the puck.

    TK has become an expert shot blocker and demonstrates he can score from that type of defensive maneuver to an expert level last year, and showed you can create offense by understanding AND exploiting your opponents' offensive gameplan. Learning that side of the game has led to him becoming a dominant playmaking top 6 winger this year. TK was always good offensively, but under Torts he has taken TK farther by giving him tools and refining his technique.

  7. All overachievers, Mich real talent but will never be an elite player. Flyers last place team without Torts. Torts has tremendous impact, he has done it before with no talent teams. Flyers are the Cleveland Browns of the NHL. They can't even lose right, they are the epitome of average and cant even tank.

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