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John Tortorella wasn't ready to accentuate the positive after a season-ending loss to the Boston Bruins.
When a reporter pointed out that this is the furthest the Columbus Blue Jackets have ever gone in the playoffs and asked if there's a sense of accomplishment for their head coach, he made his feelings crystal clear.
"Don’t even go there," Tortorella said after suffering a 3-0 defeat in Game 6. "Don't even go there with me. I’m not going to listen to that shit about an accomplishment, 'you get to the second round,' I don't even want to listen to it."
Tortorella appeared to motion as if he was going to get up to leave when the reporter asked a follow-up wondering if it felt as empty as it did last year, when the Blue Jackets lost in the first round.
"I don't remember last year's feeling," the bench boss said.
Tortorella also declined to discuss Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy receiving a minor penalty for his hit to the head of Blue Jackets forward Josh Anderson, and called Game 6 Columbus' best of the series.
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