Aaron Portsline

Way beyond.

People say, hey, John Tortorella's a tough one player.

John Tortorella does not do the things that Mike Babcock is accused of having done.

And zero ownership of it.

That's not a surprise, but to me the biggest concern.

If I'm an Edmonton player, if I'm an Edmonton fan, that this guy seems to have learned absolutely zero other than how to blame other people.

Well, that means they didn't have his back.

Right, exactly.

That means you're supposed to stick up for me.

You're supposed to say, no, no, he does what he does, okay, because he's a good hockey coach and we're going to win.

So all of these control issues –

that he has and the abuse that that can inflict on other people, you got to put up with it and we're here to support him in that.

Well, no, right?

I mean, come on.

And that's what that means.

And again, that's not what happened in Columbus.

He did not say I got to get out of here because the people around me aren't supporting my coaching style.

He did some things that way step over the line.

And that's why he resigned before he would have been fired.

Yeah.