The last time John Tortorella walked down the hallway outside the visitors’ dressing room at Rogers Arena, all he wanted was a fight.
He arrived Wednesday with the Columbus Blue Jackets and needed something more.
When Tortorella first came to the Vancouver Canucks in 2013, highly-qualified but unsuited to the lineup he inherited from Alain Vigneault, the veteran National Hockey League coach simply wished to practise his craft and be regarded for it rather than be known as the angry sound bite, a volcanic leader whose outbursts in New York did far more damage to his reputation than anyone else’s.