Tortorella’s Late Push Gives Vegas Its Killer Instinct Back

Vegas looked like a team searching for its edge with only eight games left, and then John Tortorella entered the conversation like a man who has never met a soft room he couldn’t bully into shape. The Golden Knights found a nastier, more confident gear just when the season could have drifted into excuse-making season. That kind of turnaround usually starts in the room long before it shows up on the scoreboard, and now Vegas is riding that swagger into the Stanley Cup Final.