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Kekalainen and Torts are mad after comments made by Johnson and Rutherford.

Read the entire article if you can Torts really went on a rant

https://theathletic.com/415536/2018/...n-penguins-gm/

The​ Blue Jackets​ weren’t interested in​ signing​ defenseman​ Jack​ Johnson to a contract extension, and they​ didn’t seem too​ upset at​​ the thought of him signing with the rival Pittsburgh Penguins.

But that all changed Sunday with two comments — one by Johnson, the other by Penguins GM Jim Rutherford — as Johnson was introduced in Pittsburgh after signing a five-year, $16.25 million contract with the Penguins.

Johnson, who spent seven seasons in Columbus, said of his new organization: “I’ve been looking to be in a winning culture.”

Rutherford, who has taken heat from fans in Pittsburgh as word of Johnson’s long-term deal leaked, made a cryptic comment about why Johnson was a healthy scratch for the Blue Jackets during their first-round loss to Washington in the playoffs.

“I don’t think he had a bad year,” Rutherford told reporters in Pittsburgh. “He was a healthy scratch at the end of the season. I know the reason why. It wasn’t because of how he was playing.”

Those comments irritated Blue Jackets GM Jarmo Kekalainen, who said he’d be calling Rutherford for an explanation in coming days.

But they infuriated Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella, who wanted to vent.

“All I know is, this organization, from the lawyers, the front office, J.D. (John Davidson), the managers, the coaches, players … has done nothing but try to help Jack,” Tortorella told The Athletic. “And for him to backhand slap us like this is utter bull####, and he should know better.

“No one wishes anything bad to happen to him and his family. We wish him the best. But for him to put it the way he put it today is bull####. And to have a general manager question our decision-making from three hours away, he must be a ####ing magician.”