true but I think Conroy doesn't want to "strip it down" after signing those players to massive deals because Huberdeau and Kadri didn't sign there long-term just to go through a re-build hence why they're repeating their mistakes (so far)...I guess we will find out at the TDL if they're willing to deal pending UFAs
If I don’t want my boss to look through my photo album I’m a snowflake??
If one complains vociferously about something as innocent and innocuous as this its par for the course. Not too surprising its Gen Z being all offended. Babcock didn't serve the right brand of milk and cookies it looks like. These same players, unlike previous gens have probably not worked a day in their life in any other vocation.
Depends if it was ‘show me a picture of your family’, while you are in control of your phone, vs ‘give me your phone for a while, I’m taking it into the coaches room and hooking it up to the TV to peruse.’
The 3 vet players that have spoken out on this supporting the gesture describe it as simply being asked to volunteer pictures. They also stated they had no concerns whatsoever and nobody came to them with concerns. These are the vet player leaders of that club.
that's how I heard it too
of course but I'm going off Boone Jenner and Johnny Gaudreau said
Perhaps Babs took advantage of the younger kids and took their phones into the coaches rooms, vs taking a different approach with the vets. Guess we’ll find out how serious it was after the league meeting today.
Agreed that it was proper procedure to have the PA look into it. It became more interesting when they asked the league to meet with them the next day about the issue. You don’t ask for that kind of a meeting without a legitimate concern.
This slotted in to a pre-existing NHL NHLPA meeting is my understanding. Not an urgent meeting to deal with the C-Bus matter specifically.
There’s a difference between what someone posts knowingly on social media for public consumption and what they have on their personal devices - those are two very different pieces of content for most people.
Really its not the case for a lot of people and social media posting often reveals way too much about location, activities, etc all connected with name. A huge amount of people have lost jobs or not got them due to social media posting and attaching their name and pictures to all accounts removing any possible doubt about who they are.
You could simply decline without instigating an ‘investigation’ couldn’t you? I’ll also suggest that it seems highly unlikely that anyone was asked to turn over their phones to the coach. Probably more like select and send send a couple of pictures so someone could put together a montage to help players/families get to know one another before training camp. And yeah, you’d be a snowflake if you cried about that.Lol. WTF are you taking about?
My point is social media is a public sharing of personal information whether photos, opinions, or other. Virtually everyone now has a cell phone which is predominantly used to create personal content. All that we know in this situation is that Babcock asked players to share pictures of their family aka self curate some content of their choosing as part of an ice-breaker exercise. Would seem the issue is how this request was received by players which varies very differently from the detailed public record statement of Gaudreau and the written statement of team captain.
Completely agree. That’s why I don’t think it happened that way at all. Wouldn’t ‘turning over your phone’ require you to also turn over your lock code? Who’s going to be dumb enough to request an employee do that?
It's like the two grumpiest people here. Most of us have ignored them for a decade.
But that is what Biz said happened, that they were asked to turn over their phones and then he air played them on his TV. It seems bizarre, but that appears to be the supposed issue, not just showing the coach some family pics.
Lol. WTF are you taking about?
