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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
When looking at things objectively and ignoring Brooksie:
Johansen gets bounced to the AHL early in his career desire flashes of good offensive play and is unhappy. Then, despite decent offensive numbers is benched in the AHL playoffs. Has trouble getting the ice time he feels he wants and then has a difficult contact negotiation.
Torts hired. There's one reason you hire Tortorella: whip the team into shape. Suddenly, Johansen gets sent home (and apparently the Trainer is going to make him chicken noodle soup?).
This is an organizational message, not a Tortorella message
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Yep. It's pretty obvious that the move was made because the organization feels that Johansen is a great asset but his commitment level isn't where it should be and that they didn't want a coach that was going to pussyfoot around the situation. I would think that if he doesn't take to Torts he will be trade bait in the offseason.