23 Facts About John Tortorella

John Tortorella currently serves as the head coach of the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League .

John Tortorella was previously the head coach of the National Hockey League's Columbus Blue Jackets, New York Rangers, Tampa Bay Lightning, and the Vancouver Canucks; he led Tampa Bay to the 2004 Stanley Cup championship.

John Tortorella is the first American-born NHL coach to reach 500 wins and has twice won the Jack Adams Award as the NHL's top coach.

John Tortorella is well-known for his outspoken and sometimes confrontational nature, which has included criticizing his own players as well as media members.

John Tortorella attended Concord-Carlisle High School in Concord, Massachusetts, and he is listed on the school's athletic Hall of Fame wall .

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John Tortorella attended the University of Maine, graduating in 1981.

John Tortorella, nicknamed "The Paper Italian", played right wing for three years at the University of Maine.

John Tortorella has been credited by East Coast Hockey League founders Henry Brabham and Bill Coffey with coming up with the name for the league during a league meeting at a Ramada Inn in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

At the time, John Tortorella was the head coach of Brabham's Virginia Lancers, but left the Lancers to become the assistant coach of the American Hockey League's New Haven Nighthawks before the ECHL's inaugural season in 1988.

John Tortorella was an assistant coach for the AHL's New Haven Nighthawks and Rochester Americans, and the NHL's Buffalo Sabres, Phoenix Coyotes, and New York Rangers.

John Tortorella won the Calder Cup with the 1996 Rochester Americans.

John Tortorella is known for his outspoken nature, which has included criticizing his own players.

John Tortorella is 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.

John Tortorella inherited a team that had been among the dregs of the league for four years, having lost 50 games or more in every season during that time.

In doing so John Tortorella became just the third American-born coach to win it and the first in 13 years.

John Tortorella was suspended one game by the NHL for an altercation with several Capitals fans behind the bench in the third period of Game 5 in the 2009 Stanley Cup playoffs.

John Tortorella did not receive a penalty on the play despite the fact that NHL rules state any physical altercation with fans results in ejection from the game; however, the next day the NHL suspended him.

When Laviolette became coach of the Philadelphia Flyers in 2009, the rivalry between the two teams became further heated with Tortorella and Laviolette being the winningest U S -born coaches in NHL history.

At season's end, John Tortorella became a finalist for the Jack Adams Award for a third time, losing to Ken Hitchcock of the St Louis Blues.

John Tortorella replaced Alain Vigneault, who coincidentally had been hired by the Rangers to replace Tortorella.

John Tortorella had to be physically restrained by several players and coaches.

John Tortorella finished his tenure with the Blue Jackets with the most wins of any head coach in franchise history.

John Tortorella was tapped to coach Team USA at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.