Report: A once successful coach wants to return to the NHL.

This is guaranteed to stir up some controversy. It appears that once successful head coach John Tortorella is looking to make a return to the NHL. According to Sportnet's Elliotte Friedman, the notoriously outspoken former head coach of the Tampa Bay

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Published on Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 8:42 PM

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This is guaranteed to stir up some controversy. It appears that once successful head coach John Tortorella is looking to make a return to the NHL. According to Sportnet's Elliotte Friedman, the notoriously outspoken former head coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning, New York Rangers, and Vancouver Canucks is interested in getting back behind the bench. Friedman writes: After a year away, John Tortorella would like to get back in. So would his former assistant, Mike Sullivan, although it sounds like they are not going to be together. Tortorella preferred to keep his business private, but word is he recognizes he was so shaken by his firing in New York, he should’ve taken time off.

Tortorella, 56, won a Stanley Cup with the Lightning in 2003-04 and showed some success in his time with the Rangers before an awful 2013-14 season with the Canucks which saw him fired after a 36-35-11 season. In that unsuccessful season he was not respected by his players and fans would do almost anything to see him fired Do you think he can still be successful in the NHL?

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Report: A once successful coach wants to return to the NHL.

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