Tortorella has no one to blame but himself for big fine
The Golkden Knights coach was fined $100,000 by the NHL for failing to show up after the Knights cli9nched their second-round series vs. Anaheim Thursday night.
John Tortorella was fined $100,000 by the NHL Friday for failing to appear at his scheduled postgame news conference Thursday in Anaheim. LAS VEGAS — When he got hired back on March 29, John Tortorella made it clear that this wasn’t about him, that it was about the players on the Vegas Golden Knights and that he wanted to give them 100 percent of his energy and wisdom to get the team back on track. Well, he did that and then some.
The Knights are in the Western Conference Final against Colorado and they are halfway to a second Stanley Cup. He has delivered on his promise. Unfortunately for him, Tortorella has become the story in the wake of Vegas’ second-round series-clinching win Thursday in Anaheim.
By refusing to show up at the planned postgame news conference as required by the NHL, Tortorella made himself the focus of the media coverage. Not Mitch Marner. Not Brett Howden.
Not Pavel Dorofeyev. Not Carter Hart or Shea Theodore. Torts.
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