He's blown up at teams before. It's what he does. But it also suggests that his shelf life here will be relatively short.
John Tortorella’s rant Monday was familiar. It was also reason to wonder about his future with the Flyers.
While it would certainly benefit the Flyers to qualify for the postseason — it would energize the fan base and offer some validation for their rebuild — they don’t need to be a playoff team this season to get to where they want to be. They have a long road ahead of them before they can call themselves Stanley Cup contenders, and Tortorella is supposed to act as a culture-setter in that process.
“There are certain people don’t have a clue how to play or just don’t have it in them to play in these types of situations,” Tortorella said. “And this is why I’m glad we’re playing them, because we have to figure things out as far as what we’re going to become as a team here. That was embarrassing, the second period, for the Philadelphia Flyer uniform. The way we played — embarrassing. High marks as far as we came back in the third — some guys.
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