Strange new respect for Torts

I learned to hate Tortorella when he was coaching the Rangers early in the Ovi era. Not just the regular season, but it seemed like we had to face his team every year in the playoffs, and they knocked us out two years in a row, which was absolutely backbreaking.

After the Rangers, he just had to go to the Blue Jackets and then the Flyers. So we were facing this SOB every year as a division rival.

But after seeing him come out of the broadcast booth at the end of the season, picking up a new team and immediately going 7-0-1 in the regular season and then winning three playoff series and going up 2-1 in the Cup finals, I have to admit there's something to him.

If he's not a hall of famer, who is?