266 Quotes by John Tortorella

You can't find your big guys playing against probably one of the best teams right now, guess what's going to happen. We can't have guys lying in the weeds - our best players - in games against the best teams in the league. They need to be front and centre, and they're not.

That's not saying he doesn't have the ability, but he gets everything out of himself every night. And when he's not going, it's not working for him, you know the effort is going to be there.

I thought we played well enough to win. We had plenty of scoring chances, and we just didn't finish.

You can't take the physical part out. Everybody wants that physical part and that's something we got to find here because we can't lose that. You still have to call the cheap stuff, though.

That's just a bunch of wood burning. There's no one hurt. There's nothing serious that happened. His insurance will take care of it. Whatever the insurance doesn't take care of, I am sure he has enough money to spend and take care of it himself.

I thought we played well enough in Washington, but again we didn't score the big goal. That was probably, to me, one of the toughest losses I've gone through in the way we lost it. I thought we made some terrible mistakes on the (winning) goal. ... As a coach, it was a tough one to eat.

The key to the game was, I thought our power play was very good early, and Theodore was better. He made some great saves. Later on, I thought our power play struggled and you know it's going to come back and bite you, sooner or later.

You're telling me you want (the team) to get up there and get aggressive, but when a goal is scored like that, they're going to be tentative. That has to stop for us to get any type of consistency here. Or we're done.

I thought we played very well, but do the math. Eight scoring chances, five goals. It's frustrating.