Rick Tocchet's proactive roasting of the Canucks might be a coaching masterstroke

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Vancouver Canucks head coach Rick Tocchet has his team out to a 2-1-0 start with a plus-6 goal differential — but you wouldn't know it based on the way he reacted to the club's first loss on Tuesday.

Speaking to assembled media after a 2-0 defeat at the hands of the Philadelphia Flyers, the 59-year-old went off. His harsh comments about his players included, but were not limited to:

"We were off in every single system part of it. And then the compete…