Former Lightning coach John Tortorella admits he made a mistake getting into an altercation with a fan last week and said he embarrassed himself and the New York Rangers, the team he now coaches. Near the end of a Game 5 loss in Washington, Tortorella squirted water and then threw a water bottle at a fan behind the bench at Washington's Verizon Center. Tortorella was suspended for Game 6 because of it. The Rangers once had a 3-1 series lead, but lost the series in seven games.

"It's a bad mistake by me,'' Tortorella told the Associated Press. "I regret it. I put the New York Rangers organization in an embarrassing situation. I'm embarrassed by it. I am an intense person, which is a positive, but it also turns into a negative sometimes.''

Speaking of Tortorella and the Rangers, check out this story (rumor? gossip?) in the New York Post about why the Rangers should be and might be interested in Lightning star Marty St. Louis.