[cferneyh]

John Tortorella is an assclown. You don't rip your players like that publicly. What an ass! We all know Burke and Grahame suck but that doesn't give the coach the right to basically rip Grahame and blame him for all of Tampa's woes. The goaltending has been bad but it would be nice if the defense showed up and the forwards came back once in a while. Tortorella doesn't have Khabibulin there this year to make him look like a great coach. How can the players respect a guy who singles out players that viciously? Darryl Sutter singles out players but he doesn't come out and rip them in that manner. Tortorella should be ashamed of himself.

It sure was nice of him to throw a player under the bus like that. I'm sure that will motivate the Lightning. He also said earlier in the week that Emery is Ottawa's weak link. Sounds like he's got a serious hard-on for goalies in general.