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The HQ has had to deal with New York Rangers head coach John Tortorella on a few occasions when we've covered his old team, the Tampa Bay Lightning. He's not the kind of coach that will deal with shenanigans or stupid questions.
If you don't know hockey, or haven't been paying attention, he'll let you have it.
And we totally dig that...
In the Rangers 2-0 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers, his star scorer Marian Gaborik dropped gloves with Daniel Carcillo- who has been known to drop with anyone short of his own mother if he needs to... and Carcillo got the best of the fight with seven straight rights...
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Carcillo is a Flyer for one reason, but Gaborik is a Ranger who doesn't fight...
Torts wasn't happy with the Flyers bench, either... the whole thing was a mess. The HQ is of the mind that Torts was well within his rights to kvetch on this one.
Larry Brooks of the New York Post has evolved into one of Tort's un-favorites...
As evidenced by the postgame scrum...
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3 comments:
So Gaborik doesn't fight? Then why does he drop his gloves?
The game had deteriorated and there had been two other fights in the period before Carcillo squared off with him.
It was "instinct" at that point, albeit a bad one... Gaborik had only been in one fight before that one in his entire NHL career...
Biggest issue we have is that his teammates didn't stick up for him. Carcillo said that he was "licking his chops" when he saw Gaborik drop.
Brook's pen is mightier than the Retort.
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