Tribute The Official "Fire Tortorella" Thread

[LegionOfDoom91]

Yup 100% agreed. That's what I mean.

Charlie was saying on his podcast the other day the team gave up on AV the season before they ultimately fired him but their solution was just trading two the most disgruntled in Voracek & Gostisbehere would help alleviate those issues but they obviously didn’t.

He said he doesn’t know if the team is pretty much done with Tortorella right now because he hasn’t heard that to this point but it doesn’t mean it can’t be true. He ultimately said this could be a risk in a similar to AV if they team has ultimately quit on Tortorella. Probably even more so because Tortorella is more involved in the roster decision making than AV was.

 

[Beef Invictus]

It's going to be fascinating to see if they have yet another purge to appease Tortorella. Who is even left to ship out?

 

[VladDrag]

It's going to be fascinating to see if they have yet another purge to appease Tortorella. Who is even left to ship out?

Frost and Couts.

 

[CerpinTaxt]

Only Sign Guy is allowed that privilege. Or has that changed. Cowardly, inept organizations do that
Edit to say his signs are LAME!

Alright I guess I'll have to fill the section with dudes wearing colored shirts that spells out John sucks

 

[ajgoal]

I wanna buy a 4 row section for a game next year in the lower bowl and just hang a John sucks banner across the seats

Tix to the caps game as low as $32 bucks. There could be "Fire Torts" chants.

 

[trostol]

most important offseason in a while?

 

[blackjackmulligan]

It's going to be fascinating to see if they have yet another purge to appease Tortorella. Who is even left to ship out?

Farabee. Plus he was buddies with Hayes don't hurt. I think they keep Frost. Zamula I can see gone as well.

 

[Amorgus]

The fire he has is actually the burning of horse herpes.

 

[Curufinwe]

There may be no end in sight. Dark days ahead.

Not saying Dreger is wrong about this, but having listened to his podcast this year the guy seems absolutely committed to preserving and defending the hockey status quo, no matter what it is. He gets old man indignant and starts sputtering when almost any kind of coaching or management change is brought into question.

It's quite odd.

 

[Flyerfan4life]

It's going to be fascinating to see if they have yet another purge to appease Tortorella. Who is even left to ship out?

Frost and D Briere....

 

[1865]

We’ll sack him and replace him with some other cretinous blob who’s also shit and this carousel goes on forever.

 

[Rebels57]

Best case scenario, the Canes imploded and get swept and Brindy finally comes home.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

God that shit is nasty.

Raise the bar good sir

It’s not the best but I enjoy it.

Early Times
Wild Turkey 101
Old Grand Dad 114 (or 100 YMMV)
Evan Williams BIB
Benchmark

All dirt cheap. All good. Please love yourself more than Fireball.

Old Grand Dad gives me headaches.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

There may be no end in sight. Dark days ahead.

Mediocrity reigns.

Chaos reigns.

I mean why give up that money on his coaching contract when he can get a new payday after he’s done coaching.

One thing I won’t ever criticize for is his ability to find a sucker in the Flyers organization. Job security like you read about.

 

[FlyerNutter]

ASF was openly saying yesterday there will be discussions about John moving upstairs at some point, just not sure when.

He’s not getting fired. He will be around to meddle, like all of the other “old guard” rats, even after he’s not officially HC.

If they promote Shaw which is quite likely, think John doesn’t still have major influence?

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

ASF was openly saying yesterday there will be discussions about John moving upstairs at some point, just not sure when.

He’s not getting fired. He will be around to meddle, like all of the other “old guard” rats, even after he’s not officially HC.

If they promote Shaw which is quite likely, think John doesn’t still have major influence?

I would actually have a modicum of faith in Briere if he somehow got Tortorella completely up & out of the organization.

We already saw Tortorella’s imprints on the roster construction/philosophy this year so not hard to imagine what it could to look like going forward with him in a front office role.

 

[FlyerNutter]

I would actually have a modicum of faith in Briere if he somehow got Tortorella completely up & out of the organization.

We already saw Tortorella’s imprints on the roster construction/philosophy this year so not hard to imagine what it could to look like going forward with him in a front office role.

He’s got more power than Briere, or at the very least the same. John has to sign off before any moves are made, I’d bet a testicle on that.

It’s why they had guys refuse the job when presented with the planned power structure.

 

[mja]

I have it on good authority that Tortorella is going to be promoted to a newly-created position as Dan Hilferty's Anger Translator.

 

[Magua]

I can’t even imagine how checked out Tortorella would be in a front office role where he’s paid less and doesn’t have to show up daily. Would he hold weekly sermons? Get on a video conference call in the middle of collecting horse semen? Can’t imagine this organization without him.

 

[Nizzle]

I can’t even imagine how checked out Tortorella would be in a front office role where he’s paid less and doesn’t have to show up daily. Would he hold weekly sermons? Get on a video conference call in the middle of collecting horse semen?

He would be like the one university professor who is strict about deadlines but always misses them himself.

 

[bennysflyers16]

Good to see. But we can get way lower

 

[Larry44]

I can’t even imagine how checked out Tortorella would be in a front office role where he’s paid less and doesn’t have to show up daily. Would he hold weekly sermons? Get on a video conference call in the middle of collecting horse semen? Can’t imagine this organization without him.

This week, from Florida on The Standard, Torts interviews Rocky and Lappy….

 

[Flyerfan4life]

ASF was openly saying yesterday there will be discussions about John moving upstairs at some point, just not sure when.

He’s not getting fired. He will be around to meddle, like all of the other “old guard” rats, even after he’s not officially HC.

If they promote Shaw which is quite likely, think John doesn’t still have major influence?

this is the way ^^^^

 

[Starat327]

When the Flyers miss the playoffs this year, Tortorella will have missed the playoffs in back to back years.

Even Hakstol managed to avoid back to back playoff misses.

And since making the playoffs is the way you measure a coach's success according to some here, it would stand to reason those same people would logically have to concede that Torts is a worse coach than Hakstol. That's a tough one.

 

[3mFlyers]

If he's not coaching they have to get rid of him. Players will get injured, quit or forget how to play at the sight of him.