Personally, I think a lot of the "Subban has an attitude problem" is a subtle racial dig. We've heard the lamenting for a long time over the fact that too many pro players act like robots, then when someone comes along that challenges that at all, he's cut down pretty quickly.
The common theme among the ones with "an attitude problem" I can think of is that they're not English-Canadian. Mario Lemieux was French-Canadian. Brett Hull had dual citizenship and represented the USA internationally, and both he and Lemieux took a lot of crap for being perceived as "whiners" (a label never assigned to Steve Yzerman, who plenty of actual officials said was the biggest whiner in the game). Alexander Ovechkin is Russian. PK Subban is black. Basically, if you're a white Canadian who played in the WHL or the OHL, you're fine...anyone else may be tagged as "head case" or "attitude problem" or "locker room cancer".
