John Tortorella hasn’t closed the door on coaching at 68, some two months after his latest, brief stint ended two wins short of a Stanley Cup and not being rehired by the Vegas Golden Knights.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, I want to coach,\u201d Tortorella told The Athletic this week in a story posted on Friday. \u201cI want to coach now. I\u2019m not sure if that happens, and that\u2019s where I am in my career. But I wanted to coach that Vegas team. I told (general manager Kelly McCrimmon) that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tortorella\u2019s tenure in Vegas began with him replacing the fired Bruce Cassidy with eight games left in the regular season. And it ended in mid-June with the Golden Knights losing the Stanley Cup Final in six games to the Carolina Hurricanes.<\/p>\n
Though Tortorella pushed for his return, he said he respected McCrimmon’s decision to promote minor-league coach Ryan Craig.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve been developing (Craig) for a number of years there,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s a good coach and a good man.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tortorella has 24 seasons of NHL head-coaching experience, with the Golden Knights representing his seventh stop \u2014 including two separate tenures with the New York Rangers. He enjoyed his longest stint with Tampa Bay, spanning 2000-01 to 2007-08, during which he won his only Stanley Cup in 2004. He also coached in Columbus, Philadelphia and Vancouver.<\/p>\n
From Boston, Tortorella is sixth on the NHL list and first among U.S.-born coaches with 1,628 games coached. Tortorella\u2019s 777 career wins rank second among U.S.-born coaches behind Peter Laviolette\u2019s 846. With a 70-72 career playoff record, he\u2019s 20th on the NHL list in wins.<\/p>\n
Tortorella lamented coming up short on winning a second Cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess the word I\u2019d use is disappointed,\u201d Tortorella said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t finish the job, and I wanted some more time with that club to try to finish the job. That\u2019s not my call. That\u2019s the general manager and president\u2019s call,\u201d he added. \u201cYou just get about your business after that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Tortorella hasn’t closed the door on coaching at 68, some two months after his latest, brief stint…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[762,149,5317,5,348,1596,1326,4,3494,338,3492,48059,32851,69046,74,39,5316],"class_list":["post-630446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vegas-golden-knights","tag-bruce-cassidy","tag-golden-knights","tag-goldenknights","tag-hockey","tag-john-tortorella","tag-kelly-mccrimmon","tag-las-vegas","tag-nhl","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-peter-laviolette","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40798-ap-nevada-sports-only","tag-ryan-craig","tag-tortorella-future","tag-vegas","tag-vegas-golden-knights","tag-vegasgoldenknights"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116978079688268405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}