Written by Liam McGuire at Bloguin
This is a big one. The Columbus Blue Jackets have fired head coach Todd Richards after a dismal 0-7 start and replaced him with, wait for it, John Tortorella.
The Blue Jackets basically just gave up on their season and fired a pretty good head coach in Todd Richards and replaced him with the man who’s either going to lead them to a Stanley Cup or drag the team to the ground and watch it implode further. Richards was in a tough spot following his team’s brutal start, but it wasn’t his fault. The team was generating plenty of shot attempts, but their goaltending has been atrocious, which has led to giving up bad goals at bad times. Tortorella comes into a pretty good situation as the Blue Jackets can’t possibly post worse results than they have, so he’ll look good by default.
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