UPDATE: The National Hockey League has no plans to fine New York Rangers head coach John Tortorella for his terse, tense post-game news conferences, including Wednesday night's presser that lasted a little more than a minute.  "No fine. He's been available to the media when required," said NHL spokesman Jamey Horan in an email Thursday.  Tortorella was all charm and insights on a media conference call earlier Thursday. So maybe he just hates TV cameras.  PREVIOUS: New York Rangers coach John Tortorella is becoming famous for his surly non-press conferences, one-word answers and apparent loathing of the press. It's quirky and even kind of funny when you're winning.  But Tortorella's icy contempt for the media (whether real or feigned), is being returned by media critics on TV and Twitter after the Rangers' 3-2 home playoff loss to the New Jersey Devils on Wednesday night.  Tortorella's post-game news conference in the media capital of the world lasted a little over a minute. He replied "No" or "we're going to keep it in the room (meaning the team locker room)" to a few basic questions before bolting stage right. Thanks for sharing, Coach.  Look, there's no doubt the 2004 Stanley Cup winning coach with the Tampa Bay Lightning has a big heart in his personal life. And we know nobody likes the press: Many TV viewers enjoy watching Torts make his questioners squirm. And Tortorella's not the first and certainly won't be the last coach to act this way. He probably sees it as a way to put the onus on him rather than his players. The difference with him is he's like this every day as if it's a game to him.  The media have a job to do, to0. Critics say Tortorella is acting childish and unprofessional in the media capital of the world. And possibly putting the NHL, which needs and deserves more media coverage, in a bad light.  ESPN's Mike Greenberg said Tortorella treats the press with such "disdain," so "disrespectfully" that it "galls" him. "Who do you think you are to talk to people that way?" he asked on Thursday's Mike and Mike in the Morning.  NHL Network analyst Craig Button, a former GM with the Calgary Flames, called Tortorella's media Q&A's a "joke" and a "travesty," according to Yahoo! Tortorella, who led the Rangers to the Eastern Conference regular season title and playoff series wins so far against the Washington Capitals and Ottawa Senators, should not even come to the podium after games. "It's a joke, he's making it a joke, it's an unnecessary joke, so stop it," according to Button.  Neil Best of Newsday tweeted: "John Tortorella's playoff non-interviews were amusing shtick for a while. Now they have become annoying and unprofessional."  And ESPN's John Buccigross who knows hockey tweeted: "My problem with John Tortorella's 'act' is that it's an act. Insensitive? Yes. Unprofessional? God, yes."  But MSG Network analyst Ken Daneyko said Wednesday night that Tortorella wears his emotions on his sleeve, especially when his team loses.  "I don't have a problem with it, but I know a lot of people do, certainly writers do because they want their stories and they want something out of him. He takes wins and losses very hard, just like players do. That's the way he responds."  ESPN sideline reporter Erin Andrews, a former Lightning TV reporter when Tortorella coached the club, tweeted Thursday that many coaches do the same thing.  "From someone who learned a lot under Torts when he was in Tampa Bay, he doesn't hate the media. Just dumb questions," she tweeted.
NY Rangers coach John Tortorella is being ripped for his brief, surly press conferences in which he treats reporters with loathing and disdain