John Tortorella was a visitor on Sirius XM NHL Community Radio on Wednesday. When requested in regards to the evolution of the locker room post-Claude Giroux, and if the Philadelphia Flyers want to call a brand new captain, Tortorella didn’t maintain again in his response:
“Let’s go together with the latter query. I’m in no rush to call a captain, so, that’s that. So far as the room, I’ve main issues in regards to the room, so far as, I’ve spent the summer season going backwards and forwards, I reside in New York, I’ve been going backwards and forwards to Philly making an attempt to relocate there, however spent a while within the workplace speaking to gamers, speaking to personnel, speaking to Chuck, and I’ve issues about what goes on in there. Earlier than we even step on the ice, conditions and requirements and accountability within the room is forefront. You’ll be able to’t get squat finished on the ice till you get your room straightened out, and I believe we’ve slightly bit of labor to do there.”
The Flyers are one among seven groups presently with no captain. Though there are viable choices within the locker room for the subsequent participant to put on the “C”, naming the 20 th captain in franchise historical past is the least of Tortorella’s worries in the mean time.
Remembering June
When Tortorella was employed in June, he stated nearly the identical factor relating to points within the locker room. In an interview with Taryn Hatcher, Tortorella stated the locker room is “splintered.”
“I can sense that the locker room is a bit splintered, it’s not collectively. That’s my primary objective proper now. We will’t do something proper on the ice except we’re collectively in that locker room.”
Accountability in 2022-2023
Accountability might be a focus for Tortorella and Philadelphia in 2022-2023. Throughout exit interviews in April, Scott Laughton pressured that the gamers must take a tough look within the mirror after what occurred the final two seasons.
“I believe each man’s obtained to take a tough look within the mirror this summer season and see what went improper of their recreation individually to try to assist the group, and that’s when it actually comes collectively. These final two years, I don’t assume we’ve essentially performed good hockey or been a tough hockey group to play in opposition to. That’s what we’ve to get again to, particularly in Philly on the Wells Fargo in entrance of your followers.”
Tortorella was employed to proper the ship and make Philadelphia a aggressive group once more. He’s able to push his new gamers, bodily and mentally, throughout coaching camp.
“Like I advised Chuck: ‘I don’t need you to provide me a bunch of details about the gamers.’ It’s necessary that I see it. Once I begin camp with them, they’re going to undergo numerous totally different psychological workouts, bodily workouts that’s going to check them, see what they’re, and I must make my very own ideas in my head so far as what these guys are about.”
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