Vegas head coach John Tortorella keeps his lips sealed about massive fine, loss of draft pick

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Usually, if an NHL team is going into its conference final with a cloud hanging over, it has to do with a player who's out of the lineup because of injury or maybe a suspension.

Rarely is that cloud because the team just had its second-round pick that's just a month away, yoinked from them, and the coach was slapped with a $100,000 fine.

But that's what's happening to the Vegas Golden Knights.

Vegas Golden Knights declined to comment on his $100,000 fine and the team losing a second-round draft pick after he refused to speak to the media after clinching the team's series against the Anaheim Ducks. (Photo by David Becker/NHLI via Getty Images)

And head coach John Tortorella does not want to talk about it... which is also kind of how all of this started.

Tortorella usually gets in trouble for what he says, but in this case, it was for what he didn't say, which was anything to the media after Vegas' Game 6 over the Anaheim Ducks.

That led to the penalties from the league, which said there had been multiple warnings to the club.

Vegas responded by saying it would not comment on the matter, and on Saturday, Tortorella toed the company line and followed suit.

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Which, again, is rare.

While he was mum on this topic, Tortorella did discuss the upcoming series with the Colorado Avalanche.

It's still unclear why Tortorella skipped his media obligations and the post-series handshake line, but Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman reported that it was because the coach was upset about defenseman Brayden McNabb's suspension from an incident in Game 5 that kept him out of Game 6.

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