Goal Line Report
Tortorella Sets The Tone Early
by Patrick Hoffman on 06/29/09 at 10:40 PM ET
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From Jim Cerny at NewYorkRangers.com:
John Tortorella was not on the ice when the Rangers opened up their five-day camp for prospects on Monday at the MSG Training Center, but his presence was clearly felt by the young players who were put through intense conditioning workouts and tests by Hartford Wolf Pack head coach Ken Gernander and his assistants J.J. Daigneault and Pat Boller.
Tortorella—who was seated alongside Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather and the club’s Assistant G.M. Jim Schoenfeld in a special area overlooking the rink—designed the prospects camp to mirror the first few days of what his initial training camp with the team will look like in September. A grueling battery of on-ice and off-ice conditioning tests began on Monday and will continue throughout the week, with a sprinkling of on-ice hockey drills mixed in.
Rangers head coach John Tortorella did not mince words on Monday when he spoke about how much he will expect from all of his players in the upcoming training camp and the 2009-10 season.
“These are young men that have played in all different programs, have been pretty good players in those programs or they wouldn’t be at this camp, and this is a good situation to let them know what is expected,” said Tortorella. “It’s going to be tough, but at least they’ll know if they get invited to the big camp what is expected of them. And they might have a leg up on the other guys.”
And how about this gem from Torts:
“As far as the lines are concerned, as far as the makeup of our team, from Scott Gomez right on down, the only guy I know is gonna be there is Hank. He’s gonna be our starting goalie. But other than that, it’s wide open. And I’m not afraid of youth. It’s going to be done on merit.”
Click here for more. Nice to know that at least one person in the Rangers’ organization knows what this team needs in order to be successful.
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