NEW YORK — Mike Sullivan and John Tortorella are good friends. They play golf together — and apparently Tortorella is given strokes, as Sullivan hilariously explained last week. They’re also fierce competitors.
Which means that they may exchange a few friendly words here in the next 48 hours, but it won’t be much and that’ll be about it for two weeks.
Maybe more depending on what promises to be one of the NHL’s feistiest first-round series plays out.
But as sexy of a storyline as this may be — best-on-best (friend) competition, teacher versus pupil — the two men at the center of it all would rather the spotlight be shone elsewhere.