John Tortorella Quotes


You're telling me you want (the team) to get up there and get aggressive, but when a goal is scored like that, they're going to be tentative. That has to stop for us to get any type of consistency here. Or we're done. - John Tortorella


You're (darn) right he will. - John Tortorella


Your best players need to be your best players and almost dominate games. Or your goaltending dominates a game. You just need some dominating performances, and if you're going to have dominating performances, it's going to come from your best guys. And if you sprinkle two or three of those in six games, and you find a way to win four or five games, that's when you start getting that swagger back. - John Tortorella


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. - John Tortorella


You know what, 18 scoring chances to 10. We can't have [expletive] four goals go into our net on 10 chances. We can't. Especially the fourth goal. It can't happen. So you tell me you want me to get them to get out there and play aggressive, this that and the other thing, when [expletive] goals go in like that. They're going to be tentative. They're going to be tentative, and that has to stop for us to get any type of consistency here, or we're [expletive] done. It has to stop. - John Tortorella


You can't take the physical part out. Everybody wants that physical part and that's something we got to find here because we can't lose that. You still have to call the cheap stuff, though. - John Tortorella


You can't have (expletive) four goals in our net on 10 chances. Especially the fourth goal. It can't happen. - John Tortorella


You can't be doing the things you were doing four years ago right now. You have to show them the respect that they have grown. And they have grown. - John Tortorella


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. - John Tortorella


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