Trusted NHL Insider has just confirmed John Tortorella's fate with the New York Rangers

By now, we all know the New York Rangers had a disastrous season as they failed to make the playoffs, after just winning the Presidents last season and making it to the Eastern Conference Final.

However, the Rangers failed season resulted in head coach Peter Laviolette to be fired, leaving the organization to now search for a new head coach this offseason.

While on the search for a new coach, there was recently some speculation on social media on Wednesday (Apr. 23) about the New York Rangers potentially having found their new head coach.

As one source claimed that another «source» heard that John Tortorella, who was fired by the Philadelphia Flyers close to the end of the season, was going to be the next Rangers head coach.

As the tweet circulated on X, a trusted New York Rangers insider Arthur Staple, along with other sources quickly revealed that this was not the case, and that the report was false.

Unfortunately at this time, there has been no real reports indicating that the New York Rangers will be hiring Tortorella or that they are even interested in bringing him back.

Several big name insiders like Elliotte Friedman, Daren Dreger have not mentioned anything regarding the Rangers and Tortorella being linked at the moment.

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