Tortarella Tells the Truth about the NYR Firing

[Fuhgeddaboudit]

 
It’s a criticism that boiled over this off-season when it was suggested some players in New York turned on him, complaining to management about the way they were treated.

It’s a scenario Tortorella all but conceded. He also said it hurt him, mostly because he felt those players should have confronted him.

“What bothered me the most is I thought I was pretty close to the guys, and in exit interviews they come by my desk too, and no one said anything to me,” Tortorella said.

“I wish they would have said something to me. Glen (Sather) probably still would have fired me, but you hope you develop people to be men, and I thought we were there. I guess it went through a third party instead of face-to-face. I know it happens in the game, I don’t agree with it.

“With the way I coach, every time there are exit interviews at the end of the year, I always find out it comes up that I’m too hard. It’s the world I live in. I get it. I live with that.

“I am still going to be a coach that demands a lot out of players. That’s my job, to get them to spots they didn’t think they could get to.”
 
 

 
 
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I'm kind of disappointed that the players actually wouldn't say anything to Torts... I liked Torts, and I like the players.. but that sounds babyish that they would just "rat" Torts out like that.