The Flyers beat the Blue Jackets 5-3 on Tuesday night. Good win for a team that should be losing.

But anyway, Kevin Hayes returned to the lineup with three shots following his one-game benching, and Sam Carchidi asked the most innocuous question of all time and eternity, resulting in this answer from Torts:

Full transcript here:

Carchidi: John, what did you think of Wade Allison’s game…  I think he missed about six weeks, and what did you think of Hayesy’s game tonight too?

Tortorella: “Yeah, I’m not giving you an update on Hayesy’s game. I’m not going to have the Kevin Hayes update. You guys are trying to pit him against me and me against him, which is so ludicrous. So I’m not giving you any update on Kevin Hayes.”

lol

What the fuck Torts even talking about? He healthy scratched his point leader, so the beat writers asked the player what he thought. Hayes said he disagreed with the benching, but it’s the choice of the coach and blah blah, yadda yadda. He then returns to the lineup, Sam asks what Torts what thought of his game (the most basic question you can ask), and then we get some bullshit about trying to pit Hayes against Tortorella and create some conflict.

Torts takes the L here. The Flyers beats did absolutely nothing wrong. They get a W.