John Tortorella, who was reigning as the hockey coach of Tampa Bay Lightning from 2001, was removed from his office before the termination of his contract. The General Manager of

Tampa Bay, Jay Feaster was finding it difficult to remove him from the post as he was the only coach to take the team to win its one and only Stanley Cup, which helped in

Tampa Bay fans purchasing many tickets to witness the games. Tortorella took over the team while it was going through a bad phase and was able to completely change the attitude of the players and bring them to the level of match winners in NHL in three years time. There are speculations that Barry Melrose would be the successor of Tortorella.