John Tortorella Four Quotations

I'd just like to get a save. It's tough. I didn't think Grahame played well. You give up four goals on 17 shots. We need the occasional save.

Four goals in 16 shots. ... I'm really tired of the 25-percent rule.

We need an occasional save. Johnny is trying like hell but four goals in 16 shots. It's deflating.

You can't be doing the things you were doing four years ago right now. You have to show them the respect that they have grown. And they have grown.

I've tried to work with him this year. I remember I told him a few weeks ago, I said, 'Arty, don't worry about anything, just go and hit as hard as you possibly can.' He proceeded to go out and take four penalties. So, it's kind of a give and take here. But we want him to play hard. And the book on Arty is that he goes up and down as far as his readiness to play. But remember, he is a raw talent. And still a very young man, and you have to live with some of those bumps.

Your best players need to be your best players and almost dominate games. Or your goaltending dominates a game. You just need some dominating performances, and if you're going to have dominating performances, it's going to come from your best guys. And if you sprinkle two or three of those in six games, and you find a way to win four or five games, that's when you start getting that swagger back.

Think that has a little thing to do with it tonight? Yeah. We can't have four goals go in our net on 10 (scoring) chances.

Eighteen scoring chances to 10. We can't have four goals in our net on 10 chances.

It's deflating to see 16 shots and four of them in the net, let's call a spade a spade. He's trying like hell, (but) we need (an) occasional save.

I felt we did some really good things. I thought our counters were good tonight. We end up with 18 scoring chances to 10 (for Montreal). We can't have four goals go in our net on 10 chances. Especially the fourth goal.

You can't have (expletive) four goals in our net on 10 chances. Especially the fourth goal. It can't happen.