This Sparked The Biggest Upset in NHL History 

Love how Bob is in net for the two biggest upsets in the last decade

John Tortorella was always a very good motivator.

That Tampa-Columbus series was epic. Not only was that an unbelievable upset to a Tampa team that was having an amazing regular season but it also like a fire under Tampa Bay that propelled them to win the Stanley Cup 2 years in a row and reach the Stanley Cup Finals 3 years in a row. It basically was the defining moment in the NHL for the last 3-4 years.

I fucking love John Tortorella lol

Not ashamed to say that as a Blue Jackets fan my entire life, I cried like a child after this series

I feel like hockey is the only sport where this kind of thing can happen. I don't think you will ever see anything close to this in other sports, and we just had a similar upset this past year. This is why playoff hockey is the peak of all sport.

I was there for the final game. What a feeling. This city deserves a winning team. They show up no matter what. I can't wait to see how the future works out for us.

I'll never forget this series.......stranded in Vegas for 4 weeks with nothing to do but betting on hockey - I had a parley for CBJ and the over for all these games and I made up for 3 straight horrible years of betting on hockey games......

Sometimes he got on my nerves but stuff like this makes me really like him. It's so true what he said. It's a mindset.

credit to tampa for totally flipping the script the years that followed.

i got chills watching this series and i still get chills

Ah yes, the 2019 sweep of Tampa. I remember it as if it were yesterday😂🎉

This is pretty much my favorite playoff series I've watched. And being at game 4 will probably be the best game I will ever go to unless its a cup final

Hate Torts or love him, he’s a great coach.

This video was genuinely so good🙏 It's making me miss the NHL

For a Torts fan and a CBJ fan for the duration of his tenure, the run to the playoffs and this series was some of the best times for me as a hockey fan.

that opening speech brings a tear to my eye. nothing makes you feel more like a part of something than coach screaming his head off before a game. on another note that was a very good video my dude. super easy to watch the whole thing. one of the few times i didnt check twice to see how long the video was.

If I ever met Sid, my first question would be: "Who is your favorite coach and why is it Torts?" 🤣

Similarities to what happened to Boston last year. 1 major difference is Boston had a 3-1 lead and totally blew it.

Incredible video! Hockey needed a channel like this and you're doing it justice. Well done.

Undoubtedly the greatest coaching performance in NHL history

Now that's how you motivate your team! Love him or hate him, Torts is a legend

This series made me become a Blue Jackets fan!

Was really pulling for them against Boston in R2. Would have been great to see them have a '23 Panthers level run.

Cant wait to come back to this channel is 10-20 years and rewatch the moments from my prime 10/10

Okay here is a true story John Tortorella who was the Tampa Bay Lightning coach at the time and 2003-2004 got the Tampa Bay Lightning to the Stanley Cup their first one ever

Great video, thank you! Looking forward to the new season!

The ending especially felt very inspired by SB nation's a moment in history in all the good ways

I love your style of building the story then showing the climax in real time. Keep up the amazing work!

What a good video! It's stuff like this that makes me love hockey! Thanks for showcasing this!

This is why I love sports, when playoffs come, its anyone's game.

As a blue jackets fan, this felt like we had won the Stanley cup

You cover kucherov getting a one game suspension but failed to mention how he tried to "kill a guy"

I'd like to listen to the uncensored version of his speech. Torts is always firey, and his speeches or pressers are often instant classics. I picked Tampa that year. The upset was unprecedented... until the Panthers upsetting the Bruins this year perhaps.

man your content is amazing never stop

please do Miracle on ice

It's still amazing to me that prior to this Tampa went on a SCF run in 15, two back to back ECF runs that went to game 7 each, one with Stamkos missing all but one game, and then they have this massive year just to get swept. You would think all those runs and experience would carry over even for a year they are dominating and pick it up in the playoffs. Then the 21 palyoffs they looked like they would be one hit wonders and then they turn it all on starting game 1.

Just watched the intro. I love that you are using the same music as Veritasium when you explain things dude! Keep up the great work :)

This channel gave me my hockey fix all summer

If only they could have kept that team

Gotta do one on the Florida Boston upset this past year now haha

Loved this as a Columbus fan

The blue jackets were a special team for a special coach in John Tortorella. Most teams aren’t willing to commit to his deal 100%, such as the Canucks. When it works, damn does it work good.

Torts is so classically himself. Legendary levels of profanity but he still smiles so genuinely when his team does something good.

I always root for underdogs, makes things so interesting. Just like the Montreal Canadiens playoff run in 2021

This is some quality production work; professional level that was engaging to the end; and I’m still debating on that end if going to black-screen when,it did OR did it require a final wrap-up line or two..either would be great I think.

I remember watching the 1st period of the 1st game. Tampa was leading 3-0. I thought it was done deal and shut the TV. Needless to say I was pretty surprised to find out what had happened.

After this series lost, I didnt go to a single home game or watch any game on tv. Only listened to Esposito on the radio. 3 finals and 2 cups later(also made it in the newspaper about my superstition) I’m glad this happened… haha

Damn you make some unreal videos

I can't wait to see your video on Flyers v Bruins of whatever year that was.

Just a prime example of why NHL playoffs are truly a second season, with another example set this year.

I love a good underdog story

As someone who started paying attention to not just my team the year after this it is crazy to think this was even possible and that Panarin was on that team at that point lol

I'm honored as a hockey fan to have watched this as it went down, i will never forget that year as that year both confrence winners would lose pretty easily in the first round obviously as seen here the Lightning would lose in 4 to the Blue Jackets and the Flames would lose in 5 to the Avalanche, its also the same year of that infamous game 7 choke of the Vegas Golden Knights, that would also be the same year the team that was dead last in January would climb all the way back to win the Stanley Cup i will never forget the 2019 playoffs that was a wild year

This video made me sub good shit bro

Yeah that was great. It was fun this year too when Florida did something similar to Boston. There really is nothing better in sports than the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Best hockey vids on RU-vid

this series won me a huge bet.

See winning game 1 was important for Columbus because that gave them momentum and hope and it started to put doubts in Tampa’s heads.

Torts is great always liked him But then this that sparked a Virginia cavaliers style redemption story Lightning won back to back cups, went to a 3rd final too Even got revenge along the way The jackets sweep of the lightning is probably one of the single most important series in nhl recent history

The last 3 teams to set (or tie) a new season wins record have all fallen short before the Stanely Cup final. I'd honestly be more nervous in the playoffs as a President's trophy winner than anything else.

Loved watching this happen. Especially as a Florida panthers fan…never thought I’d experience the same moment or arguably a bigger one. End of the day hockey playoffs are amazing, insane and highly unpredictable.

I swear when I first watched this video Torts speech was subtitled

I love all these deep dives, should do the Kings Vs. Sharks 3-0 comeback in 2014 :)

It’s crazy to look back on this. I was at games 3 and 4. The city was alive

That’s bread man for ya

Is there an uncensored version?

Torts is my favourite coach. Love him or hate him he doesn't sugarcoat things and if you treat him fairly, he treats your fairly.

wow. this actually gave me a ton of respect for CBJ. I will be cheering for them this season now.

Saying that the biggest upset in NHL history isn't the team setting a regular season record getting upset in the first round is a pretty bold statement. At least Boston made it to game 7.

I was at game 4. it was crazy loudest thing i have ever heard and saw more brooms than I can count

Its funny how quite the cannon is in videos that cannon is so loud in person

I’m new to the nhl. Been watching for 2 yrs now. What year was this that the jackets swept the lightning?

This collapse created a monster

that's right john and company got it done i still freak out over this series we love are team and our boy's good bad ugly 5th line forever.

I love this story. There was no Presidents trophy curse. That was Torts! He had a lot to do with building that Tampa winning machine. He knew how to take it apart! It's useful in reminding new fans that there's really no such thing as a curse on the Presidents trophy. There's dormant talent all over the NHL, simply waiting for an opportunity. Coaches like Tortorella are worse than that supposed "curse"! Got to give props to Nick foligno for captaining that team. Poor Vassey. But hey, my team had an opportunity that year cuz Tampa was eliminated, and they blew it again st. Louis! Golden opportunity to steal a cup from Tampa thanks to Torts... And the Bruins blew it! He opened the door for the Bruins to walk right through and we tripped! My B's also did a version of this back in 1971, new coach Tom Johnson set a franchise record for most winning regular season. # 1 team, shoe-in for the cup. First round -Went down to the most miserable Habs team to squeak into the last wild-card spot 🙄 Then 48 years later, my team did it again! broke their own franchise record while setting the NHL record for most winning regular-season Went all in on the cup, then went down first round to the Florida Panthers! 😮 Shytt happens! But after the 1971 failure, 1972 the humiliated big bad Bruins, big ole chip on their collective shoulder, came out to play and got themselves a 1972 cup! 😆 It's okay that history repeats itself. For certain teams 🐻🏆 We just got to figure out a way to avoid the real curse -Torts.

Wish they would have made it even further

As a lifelong Blue Jackets fan who has been there since 2000, and as a kid who grew up in Columbus, Ohio loving hockey when nobody else did, this was the defining moment. This was the moment that changed my hometown forever. I remember as a kid getting bullied in middle school by the only other hockey fan in my school district. He was a Penguins fan, and relentlessly made fun of me for liking the Jackets. This series happened my Junior year of College. Now when I look at my hometown it's a hockey hotbed, and even though the team sucks right now, no kid in Columbus will have the same feeling that I had of having to be bullied for being the only Jackets fan in school.

My father is scaringly good at predicting games and series, the second David Savard scored, he just looked at me and said the jackets would win the series.

I love this channel

THIS WAS LEGENDARY!!!! NHL playoffs are always the best of all sports as we all know. But this was truly the impossible made possible. Great video

this commentary and video style reminds me or Secret Base’s rewind videos!

Very good video!

The wall. Tampa hit the wall. The same wall that boston, toronto and carolina hit in the 2023 playoffs. They didn't do their homework it looks like.

Arguably the greatest moment in franchise history, yes it's not a Stanley Cup, yes we got knocked out the very next round. But the sheer improbability for the Jackets to not only win the series but SWEEP is incredible

Proves how much mental goes into this sport. Get in your own head, you lose.

I would argue this is what propelled Tampa to become so much greater and consistent year after year. Sometime you need these kinds of humiliation and lessons to become champions.. In some weird way, this was the best thing that happened for Tampa. You learn so much more about your team from the defeat than from victory.

Beautiful 🥹

Hockey is the one sport where the last place team and first place team you still can’t predict the outcome.

Bob IS sole reason for both the Blue Jackets and Panthers went this far in the playoffs. You remove him from the equation and both teams don't go past 1st round.

Chills. Just.... Chills

Confidence, momentum, grit, will... are key in a Stanley Cup run.

goose bumps

I remember chirping some jackets fan before the series for thinking they had a shot and he told me something that was left out of the video. Columbus was 4-0 during the season against the lightning

Almost every single CBJ goal in the series was a "holy sh--!!" moment

CBJ fan here. You folks dont understand how electric this was for us.

And thus the borderline dynasty with 11 consecutive series wins was born

Great video will SUB Thank You

I love tortorella playing for the flyers i think he is an amazing coach

Thought my headphones were on the Fritz at the start.