[News] TSN: Tortorella fired - now official.

[Mike F]

Let's hope this means they see coaching as the problem, not the players.

[pylon]

Originally Posted by T@T

Fairly sure the $1.6m would be per year not total (80% payout per year), Tortorella can be stupid when his heart rate is up but I'm sure he's not a total idiot.

I remember reading a while back that the Canucks had a very team favourable buyout clause with Tortorella.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by T@T

Fairly sure the $1.6m would be per year not total (80% payout per year), Tortorella can be stupid when his heart rate is up but I'm sure he's not a total idiot.

Yeah it seems bizarre to sign a long term deal that wasn't guaranteed. This sounds more like an NFL type contract. It's the type of structure you would expect maybe a new coach hire with a lame duck GM but Gillis had lots of term left on his deal.

[killer_carlson]

Some teams will pay out, and others will want to claw back $$$ if the coach is rehired somewhere during the term.

That said, I expect it to be $1.6 per season

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by diane_phaneuf

Kelcey Brade ‏@ctv_kelcey 1m
#Canucks will fire John Tortorella tomorrow w 4yrs lft on 5yr deal. His payout is believed to be $1.6M. @CTVVancouver pic.twitter.com/abRs8VJYFs


1.6m when he signed a 5 year 10m contract is a good negotiation by Aquilini/Gillis whomever did it

Hiring the wrong coach and having to fire him after 1 year is not what I would call a good negotiation, but sure... go Nucks!

[taxbuster]

Originally Posted by dino7c

#freetortz

they got their wish he is free...from being employed

$8 million free.

[Northendzone]

Aaahhh, so Vancouver, there no good!!!

[T@T]

Originally Posted by pylon

I remember reading a while back that the Canucks had a very team favourable buyout clause with Tortorella.

If it's that favourable Torts is truly an idiot.

[browna]

Who knows, maybe the Canucks had an out clause for that payout amount if they wanted him done/he wanted out after 1 year.

Or, some stipulation that he would get punted, and that payout, if Gillis was gone, or a spectacled former player takes over as President or, an NBA owner gets kicked out of the league...and if they didn't punt him now, they were on the hook for a lot more.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by browna

Who knows, maybe the Canucks had an out clause for that payout amount if they wanted him done/he wanted out after 1 year.

Or, some stipulation that he would get punted, and that payout, if Gillis was gone, or a spectacled former player takes over as President or, an NBA owner gets kicked out of the league...and if they didn't punt him now, they were on the hook for a lot more.

Either way I would think Torts will go at least a season out of work as it's hard to imagine him finding work immediately until the stink of this season fades.

[d_phaneuf]

they definitely had an out clause, it was reported after Gillis got fired that both of them did by Tony Gallagher who was a Gillis media 'guy' so he would have known

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Either way I would think Torts will go at least a season out of work as it's hard to imagine him finding work immediately until the stink of this season fades.

I think Toronto will express some interest. Tortellini in Toronto could be a win-win situation.

[browna]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Either way I would think Torts will go at least a season out of work as it's hard to imagine him finding work immediately until the stink of this season fades.

Likely to get an NBCSN job for the year, while him and Feaster try and figure out how they can return somewhere together again.

Torts knows something about winning Stanley Cups, and Feaster can slickly talk and hoodwink his way into his second straight job...and since Lowe should be getting the firing itch within the next 365 days, there's a nice fit up north.

[saXon]

That team is turning into a circus, and it's starting to rival the mullet circus up north.

[Flash Walken]

Wasn't this all but confirmed already when Conroy let slip that the Canucks were looking at Ward?

[nik-]

Originally Posted by diane_phaneuf

they definitely had an out clause, it was reported after Gillis got fired that both of them did by Tony Gallagher who was a Gillis media 'guy' so he would have known

Yeah, he has a cheap buy out clause in there for sure. But they were saying earlier that it was 50% of the remaining, not 20%.

[OzSome]

No surprise here. Maybe the Oilers and Canucks swap their coaches. Imagine Torts going to Edmonton and Eakins to Van.

Anyways both Edmonton and Vancouver are no good.

[calgARI]

Watch Linden hire the coach then GM. Guy doesn't have a spec of qualification to be running an organization.

[calgARI]

Originally Posted by OzSome

No surprise here. Maybe the Oilers and Canucks swap their coaches. Imagine Torts going to Edmonton and Eakins to Van.

Anyways both Edmonton and Vancouver are no good.

Tortorella is exactly what Edmonton needs. Truly.

[Pizza]

Originally Posted by nik-

I wouldn't be surprised if he re-invented himself as a female detective and kidnapped Hartley one day.

LOL

I need to remember that line