(1958-06-24) June 24, 1958 (age 65) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Height
5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Weight
175 lb (79 kg; 12 st 7 lb)
Position
Right wing
Shot
Left
Played for
Hampton Roads Gulls Erie Golden Blades Virginia Lancers
Current NHL coach
Philadelphia Flyers
Coached for
New York Rangers Tampa Bay Lightning Vancouver Canucks Columbus Blue Jackets
Playing career
1982–1986
Coaching career
1988–present
John Tortorella[1] (born June 24, 1958) is an American professional ice hockey coach and former player who is the head coach for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Tortorella was previously the head coach of the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets, New York Rangers, Tampa Bay Lightning, and Vancouver Canucks. He led Tampa Bay to the 2004 Stanley Cup championship.[2]
He is the first American-born NHL coach to reach 500 wins and as of the end of the 2023–24 he is ninth all-time in wins with 742. He has twice won the Jack Adams Award as the NHL's top coach.
Tortorella is well known for his outspoken and sometimes confrontational nature, which has included criticizing his own players and members of the media.[3] Tortorella is also known for his system of regularly rotating goaltending duties during his time in Tampa Bay, a system which was discontinued when he became head coach of the New York Rangers and used Henrik Lundqvist as the regular starting goalie. This system returned in the 2019–20 NHL season with the Columbus Blue Jackets, with the emergence of Joonas Korpisalo and Elvis Merzļikins as the goaltender tandem.
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^Goodall, Fred (June 3, 2008). "Lightning fire Tortorella 4 years after Cup win". yahoo.com. Archived from the original on June 4, 2008. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
^"John Tortorella, his volatile, confrontational style, and the reckoning of coaches across hockey". The Athletic. December 4, 2019. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
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record in the league going 25–46–11, failing to make the playoffs. JohnTortorella was hired as the team's new head coach, signing a four year contract...
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