Reading Arace's column about how it will take time to turn things around. He quotes Tortorella as saying "there will be constant teaching trying to turn this into instinctive play thus good habits."
My question is Hockey really this complicated? Were the CBJ lacking in basic team fundamentals under Todd Richards that Tortorella has to start from scratch?
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I think it's a bunch of gobbledeegook.
Torts is buying time, me thinks. The notion that Hartnell, Dubinsky, JJ, Tyutin, Foligno and other veterans don't grasp "nuances" and can't sense "shifts in momentum" sounds like, quite frankly, crap.
Torts has referenced this stuff before. I think that, in addition to buying time, that he's trying to build some questionable narrative that makes him look like a turnaround and teaching genius, if this ship rights itself. Keep in mind, this is likely his last coaching job if he fails. He's possibly trying to make his task look harder than it actually is.
It's also a not-too-classy way of throwing Richards under the bus. I was born at night, but not last night. The notion that the veterans on this team, which made a nice run at the Penguins in the playoffs two years ago and which had two incredible winning streaks last year, don't grasp some very basic fundamentals about the game, is a lame narrative which only the extremely naive will buy into.
sarcasm
