When John Tortorella stepped in front of the media following a 7-2 drubbing in Toronto on March 25th, and suggested that he wasn’t entirely thrilled about the prospect of continuing to learn how to coach a team that was languishing outside playoff contention, it felt like the end of the road.
The fact that the Flyers’ brass felt the need to fire Tortorella with just a handful of games remaining in a lost season speaks volumes about just how strongly they desired maintaining a sense of belief in a locker room that had been put under pressure during the dog days of a multi-year rebuild.