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The famously animated Columbus coach -- who won a Stanley Cup with Tampa in 2004 -- gave his team a quintessentially fiery pep talk, which could have been an extra motivator for the heavy underdog ...

Prior to the opening puck drop, Tortorella fired up his squad with a profanity-laced pep talk in the locker room. "Forget about skills. Forget about X's and O's.

Fox Sports Ohio cameras caught Tortorella’s Game 1 pep talk, and it was a doozy. “Forget about skills. Forget about X’s and O’s. It’s a (bleeping) mindset of (bleeping) believing.

Tortorella has had disagreements with players at every stop of his NHL career. He made national news during the 2016 World Cup when he said any player who sat during the national anthem would sit ...