John Tortorella rips into Jack Johnson, Jim Rutherford

[Luigi Lemieux]

Nothing wrong with what JJ said. He's happy to be on a team that always expects to win the cup. JT is overly sensitive if that angered him.

Now JR...i got nothing. Very out of character for him. He usually says what he feels, but it's almost never controversial or confrontational.

 

[K Fleur]

Dude is always angry. Like half of his quotes should be typed in caps lock.

 

[chethejet]

Maybe the GM should ask how did we blow a two game lead playing the next two at home vs the Caps. Wanna answer that Johnny. Torts is a head case and always has been. His hatred for anything Penguins goes back years. Maybe the fact half of the crowd at BJ's games cheer for the Pens is just one more thing that he can't handle.

 

[Burn]

CBJ needs to worry more about why Bread running away.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

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.

Oh torts.

 

[tictactoe]

reminds me of joe pesci , sometimes you have to watch out how you say things, people get wrong impression... GOODFELLAS - Fridays for girlfriends scene

 

[Internet Explorer]

Oh look, John Tortorella is crying again about the Penguins...how many years has he been complaining now?

 

[madinsomniac]

If those comments by JJ and JR were not ok to make, then Torts should have his nouth glued shut since he has said far far more derogatory things about the Pens....

 

[Stad]

This spices up the rivalry a bit doesn’t it?

What rivalry? Pens are the Jackets daddy.

 

[Pengwins]

Torts continues proving to be the most classless piece of trash in the NHL

 

[molon labe]

How do you get so irate after watching Johnson's presser?

He talks about Pittsburgh's winning culture, then into how Sid drives the boat and is a guy who will always want to win no matter how much success he or his teams' have. That he looks forward to being a part of that. Looks forward to playing in a potent offense. Pretty much all of his comments were about Pittsburgh and the situation he's moving in to - not how much he's despised the situation he was in.

Like others, this sort of touchiness seems to stem from either truthful insinuations that GMJR made that struck a nerve - or from the fact that the Jackets just got outbid on Cole and lost out on Johnson in the same week. (Plus have their premier scoring wing stating how he'd like to play elsewhere)

 

[Silky mitts]

As soon as Rutherford said that shit I was here for the Torts clapback, so awesome. If Trotz said the Pens should have benched Letang because he wasn’t one of their top six it would have been classless. For the Jackson part I think he was just on a roll.

 

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

jack johnson responds back

Wait, so Tortorella threw a tantrum over something that was ultimately nothing?

But that doesn't sound like him at all!

 

[hockeykicker]

Wait, so Tortorella threw a tantrum over something that was ultimately nothing?

But that doesn't sound like him at all!

fwiw thats the response to torts going mad

 

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

fwiw thats the response to torts going mad

That's my point.

Tortorella goes on a tirade because of the way Johnson worded one sentence. He never disparaged the Blue Jackets. But it's Syd friggin Crosby and the team that repeated in 2016 and 17. That IS a winning culture.

I swear it's like Torts is still in high school.

 

[justafan22]

Torts is a joke. Calls pittsburgh the most arrogant organization in the league and then whines all the time

 

[66-30-33]

Torts being Torts.

 

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

The Score picked up the story as well.

Tortorella explodes on Penguins' Rutherford, Johnson: 'Shut the f--- up!'

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Torts on his ride home.....

 

[gordie]

Poor Seth Jones.

 

[Jaded-Fan]

 

[AmericanDream]

didn't Brandon Dubinsky want out? right now, isn't Bread Man saying he is not interested in resigning at this time? seems players not wanting to stick around there for some strange reason....

 

[Mayor Bee]

If those comments by JJ and JR were not ok to make, then Torts should have his nouth glued shut since he has said far far more derogatory things about the Pens....

Yeah, but what he said about the Pens is actually true.

 

[Revelation]

I wish JJ told torts to eat shit instead of cucking out, would have been amazing

 

[DownIsTheNewUp]

HFBoards: "The hockey world is too boring, no personalities, nobody speaks their mind, all cliche answers."

Torts speaks his mind.... "This guys a loon, what an embarrassment to hockey"