Last season New York Rangers coach John Tortorella and New York Post columnist Larry Brooks had their share of issues, but they have been pretty good with one another this season, until maybe tonight. In discussing the hit by Derek Stepan on Mike Green Tortorella made it clear that he thought it was a clean hit. Brooks continued to press Tortorella on the hit to which he responded, "Larry, you write what you want."
During the presser Torts also praised the play of Michael Sauer, Ryan McDonagh, discussed Erik Christensen, the injury to Ruslan Fedotenko and why the Rangers have been successful against Ovechkin this season.