{"id":806783,"date":"2026-05-19T05:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/806783\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T05:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:46:24","slug":"the-john-tortorella-golden-knights-act-is-already-tired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/806783\/","title":{"rendered":"The John Tortorella-Golden Knights act is already tired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most surprising aspect of John Tortorella and the Golden Knights blowing off their media obligations after advancing to the Western Conference final <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/15\/sports\/golden-knights-lose-draft-pick-john-tortorella-fined-100k\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was the NHL\u2019s response<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to multiple reporters on the scene, the Golden Knights PR staff informed the media they would not open the locker room \u2014 an obligation following every playoff game and practice as per the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the NHL Players\u2019 Association, the NHL and its 32 member clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Mitch Marner and Brett Howden spoke in a press conference setting \u2014 in which the former said it could only last 10 minutes because Tortorella was going to leave them on the bus \u2014 and Shea Theodore was briefly available in a space outside the visiting dressing room.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas cited congestion in the Honda Center hallway as the reason for breaching the CBA. (I can\u2019t tell you how many times I\u2019ve almost been knocked over by a loaded hockey bag in a cramped visiting locker room, but everybody makes do because that\u2019s part of the gig.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most surprising aspect of John Tortorella and the Golden Knights blowing off their media obligations after advancing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":806784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[42],"tags":[44100,293,62,2632,3581,2225,56389,67,132,68,3116],"class_list":["post-806783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-john-tortorella","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-media","tag-sports-plus","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116599664666285781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}