Vancouver Canucks head coach john tortrella & assistant coach mike sullivan have both been fired today! the real question is why were they ever hired?
ok, so he coached the tampa bay lightning to a stanley cup victory in 2004, and was, in 2008, the most sucessful american-born coach. but his career was riddled by outbursts toward refs & even the press which resulted in fines & suspensions, including a suspension after an encounter with the calgary coach this season.
He was picked up as rangers head coach in 2009 but was fired after last season when they lost in round 2 to the boston bruins (wow, deja vu???).
welcome to "celebrity wife swap". at the same time, the canucks fired head coach Alain Vigneault,after they lost in round 1 to the sharks. and wow - the rangers hired vigneault & the canucks hired torts.
torts himself, after not making the playoffs this year for the first time in a long time, admited that he had not been "on the ice" enough to implement his change. Um i'm pretty sure that coaching an NHL team isn't a "stay at home" type of job. these questional changes included changing the way the sedin brothers play and resulted in lowering every single players stats from last season.
shall we start talking about goalies now??? we had Roberto Luango & cory schnieder. Lu was very vocal ...did I say whiney...about wanting to be traded after being replaced by cory late in the season but his contract was too large (crying becuase he makes too much money to sit on the bench????) but instead of just getting rid of the crybaby, no we let cory schneider go. but wait, then right at the trade deadline, florida panthers said they'd take Lu and we end up with 2 rookie goalies heading into the playoffs. I love Eddie Lack - but he wasn't seasoned enough to complete in the playoffs.
so - what now?
1 - canucks management needs to decide what they want to do and getting a new pres seems like a good start. they have to take some of the blame for the circus that has been the last 2 seasons.
2 - keep ryan kesler at all costs
3 - get a veteran goalie
Go Canucks!
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