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Originally Posted by troutman
A big part of Tortorella’s problem was he always believed he was the smartest guy in the room during a press conference, when really he was never in the top 10.
I’m not a psychiatrist, but Tortorella is the first person I’ve ever met who I believed had both an inferiority and superiority complex. He arrived in New York seemingly petrified of what the New York media would do to him, so he took preemptive steps to guard against them, when in reality, a standard coach/media relationship would have served him better. Like any bully, Tortorella deep down was afraid of the media, and out of that was born a four-year adversarial relationship that wasn’t even necessary in the first place.
Can't see Torts coaching in a Canadian market like VAN, with all the media demands.
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I think the 'media' whoever that is, often have just as big of egos and incorrectly assume that their opinion is relevant. Nobody gives a crap about the 'media' because they don't add a lot of insight, ever. Healy borderline should be in an infirmary and I half expect a troubling diagnosis potentially in the near-term with some of his incoherent ramblings.
Whoever wrote the above, thinks they're more important than they are. Does anyone truly believe a coach thinks for 2 seconds about worrying what he'll say in the press conference?? They only do it because they have to. Half this bloody site would be better commentators or have more interesting opinions than some of these tools.