[Scoutski]

I love this quote from yahoo sports (full article: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-pu...041532804.html):

The move makes sense, though. Tortorella was a gamble for the Canucks, who were hoping that a veteran group that had grown somewhat lackadaisical after its trip to the Stanley Cup Final in 2011 would respond to a shift from Alain Vigneault's gum-chewing to Tortorella's aggressive coaching.

Instead, the team got noticeably worse, failing to score 200 goals in a season for only the second time in their history, and missing the playoffs for the first time since 2007-08. Nobody had a good season. Nothing went right. And rather than providing the calm leadership one might expect from a veteran, Stanley Cup-winning coach, Tortorella tried to fight Bob Hartley in a hallway.

It may not be entirely fair to pin the decline of the Canucks in the back half of their season on that moment, but when you hang a lantern on a game like that -- when you earn an historic, two-week suspension at a time when your club needs points and they spend the next two weeks looking like a team without a coach -- it's tough to look past it.