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Rangers Coach Suspended For Game 6 After Freak-Out W/Fan
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Jen Chung
Published Apr 26, 2009
Modified Apr 26, 2009
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While the Rangers have a chance to beat the Washington Capitals this afternoon and advance in the playoffs, they'll be doing it without coach John Tortorella. During the third period of the Blue Shirts' 4-0 loss to the Caps on Friday night, Tortorella got into an altercation with a fan right behind the bench that culminated in the coach squirting water on a fan and throwing a water bottle into the stands, which hit a bystander. Tortorella was suspended; Newsday reports, the NHL "probe found that Tortorella squirted a fan before he himself was doused with a beverage." The Post notes that Tortorella "was intercepted and eventually calmed down by assistant coach Jim Schoenfeld... the only other head coach in NHL history to have been suspended for a playoff game." (Schoenfeld, when coaching the Devils, was accused of pushing a referee after a 1988 Stanley Cup playoff game; Schoenfeld yelled—video— "Good, 'cause you fell, you fat pig! Have another doughnut! Have another doughnut!.") Tortorella told reporters that he was asked by his bosses not to comment about the matter.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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