He wouldn't leave the bench! With 9:11 to play in the first period, down, 4-0, after bad play and a couple of questionable calls, the most combustible coach in hockey finally exploded.
governor Dan Hilferty only travels to about a half-dozen Flyers games, but he made the trip to Florida to witness the trade deadline Friday and see games against the Panthers and Lightning on Thursday and Saturday. The weather was fine, but that’s not why Hilferty won’t soon forget the trip.You could feel it coming. After months of measured maturity fostered by lowered expectations, the fuse of hockey’s most combustible coach, now 65 and mellowed, was getting shorter and shorter.
After several Lightning alumni were introduced on the ice, the Lightning turned the spotlight to Tortorella, who stood behind the Flyers’ bench.The Lightning scored 1 minute, 49 seconds into the game. They scored again four minutes later, after which, to no one’s surprise, pugilistic winger Nic Deslauriers dropped his gloves on the ensuing faceoff. Good fight, no effect; goal No. 3 came around the middle of the period.
He ripped into grandstanding referee Wes McCauley, but not for long, because McCauley, offended that Tortorella was blaming the Lightning offensive deluge on the officials, quickly issued a bench minor and a game misconduct. Tortorella is the guy who got a 15-day suspension for trying to break into an opposing coach’s locker room to fight him. He got fined for calling Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin “whiners.” He’s been fined 12 times and suspended three more. After Saturday’s shenanigans, both of those tallies could grow by one.
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