It wasn’t a good day to be Glenn Healy on Saturday night.

First, he got scolded by Vancouver Canucks coach John Tortorella, who suggested he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

Then his own colleague, the CBC’s Elliotte Friedman suggested that Healy was being juvenile in his reaction to Tortorella’s comments.

The incident that sparked these exchanges came in the first period of the Canucks’ 6-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers when Tortorella began barking at Oilers assistant coach Keith Acton following a fight between Acton’s son, Will, and Ryan Kesler.

Healy speculated that the sparring match was over Edmonton coach Dallas Eakins’ choice of players on the ice and suggested that Tortorella should “suck it up and shut up.”

But Tortorella said he was yelling at Acton because the Oiler assistant coach was yelling at his Canucks players.

“He’s yapping at my players. I can’t sit there and watch that,” Tortorella told reporters.

The code among coaches in the NHL is that you don’t yell at opposing players — Patrick Roy was fined $10,000 last week after yelling at the other team’s players at the end of the game and getting in a screaming match with Anaheim coach Bruce Boudreau.

The fiery Vancouver coach told reporters: “I don’t care what CBC says or anybody has to say quite honestly. They don’t know what’s happening, so I really don’t give a (expletive) what they say.”

During a Hockey Night in Canada panel discussion, host Ron MacLean said: “He’s got us there. We did not know what was happening, so fair’s fair on that.”

Healy looked annoyed and took another shot at the former Rangers coach.

“I agree with him,” Healy said. “He should not care what we say. He should care what his players have to say. And if he did know what his players were saying in New York, he’d still be coaching there.”

That line made Friedman grimace and he suggested that it was time to let this go.

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“Ah, c’mon. We had our say, let him have his say. Let’s not be 14 years old about it.”

The look that Healy shot at Friedman spoke volumes.