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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Tire fire or not, Tortorella is proving to be a hell of a lot better a coach than Willie Desjardins, under whom Gulutzen also served as an assistant in Vancouver.
But I agree with most here: this is a total non-issue.
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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
So a strategy that has worked for him for his entire career is somehow invalid because one year his team sucked?
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The Canucks were (effectively) a 101 point team before Torts, had an 18 point drop when he arrived, and jumped back up 18 points to 101 after he left... Yet Gulutzen looks at the guy at the helm in the middle and says, "I'll do what he was doing!"
And FWIW, this year is only Tortorella's 2nd really successful season since '04 and, according to HNIC tonight, the players on Columbus just requested a closed door meeting with Torts to address his coaching style after the team has gone 8-9-1 in the last 19.
So, no, "cause Torts did it his whole career" isn't enough for me.