John Tortorella makes history and healthy scratches himself from tonight's game
This isn't something you hear everyday or even every season. But today John Tortorella made the very odd decision to healthy scratch himself from tonight's game.
While we've heard stories in the past of coach's missing games due to illness that isn't the case for tonight. Tortorella is 100% healthy, but wanted to watch the game from a different perspective with the team's new General Manager.
John Tortorella will not be behind the bench tonight for PHI @ OTT. Brad Shaw will run the bench.
Tortorella decided to watch from the press box with Danny Briere to 1) get the perspective of watching from up top and 2) give Shaw the chance to coach the bench.
Tortorella decided to watch from the press box with Danny Briere to 1) get the perspective of watching from up top and 2) give Shaw the chance to coach the bench.
Tortorella also made the decision that Shaw would be handling all post game duties including the post game press conference. This is a very unique idea and one of the first times I can remember a coach ever doing this.
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