Nobody is absolving Babcock. I'm not. I've been critical of him before. But Biz Nasty is embarassing to TNT, shouldn't be even connected with the staff there.
Probably why he resigned and said “to hell with it”
Pretty much what I think occurred. Wasn't worth the bs. Not all managerial level jobs are now. With Babcock it was as John Shannon stated, he would have to be perfect, make no mistakes, and he's not that kind of individual either.
You’d think he would be able to keep his nose clean to at least make it to a damn preseason game. What an idiot.
Possibly was. But if a guy who has been out of the league for a while and has been known to not be the best to his players STARTS his time as a coach again like this?
Sure but their captain and best player came to the defense of that coach
Babcock has historically treated vets and young players very differently.
We will never know all the facts. What we do know is it was at bare minimum inappropriate, the NHLPA and the league which normally tries to sweep everything under the rug and do shit all were digging deep into it and they spent 1-2 days on how to handle his departure kind of tells us the following.
That’s your interpretation of the matter
He would still be working today if the player said, hey coach, here's my phone, take a look thru it. The number of minutes doesn't really matter, it's just inappropriate and creepy. The way the league likes to cover up issues, and not get involved unless it's really bad, we can be pretty sure that he must of done something that was beyond what was normal for a coach to do.
What kind of maroon would hand over their cellphone except if they were going to jail? This isn't Russia or North Korea. I have hard time imaging anybody being dense enough to comply if that was the ask. In anycase Some source calliing itself "NHL news" appears to not be actual NHL sanctioned release. Its some doofus source called "puckpedia" f***ing twitter or X. Anybody can call themselves anything. I should call myself the CIA. whoops, bomb dropped on house, arrrggghhh!
He'd still be working today if some person with an ace to grind wasn't firebombing this and was going to f*** him without lube and sandpaper finish.
Deep throat
The last 48 hours before the statement was released were spent 'negotiating his exit'. Need to read between the lines a bit. Gave him the saving face option and likely a bit of a payday to go away.
Thats one take. Another could be that an exit is "negotiated" because all parties realize that outright firing is without demonstrable just cause. Not that either of us are Lawyers here.
Incidentally this is becoming the norm. I know someone who recently was fired from a school division for sharing a meme on Facebook. Something you could literally do by accident if you were distracted.He'd still be working today if some person with an ace to grind wasn't firebombing this and was going to f*** him without lube and sandpaper finish.
Lets not pretend either that Biz Nasty just has the players best interests at heart. Should I give the 100 citations where Bissonette or Ryan Whitney have mocked the shit out of other players active or otherwise?
Others, particularly @BlackMcDog have commented on the realities of present day work life. If some source comes at you hard enough it doesn't matter much what occurred. What matters in that is that damage control occurs but perhaps ironically by an org that hired Babcock in the first place, and a league that allowed that.
As somebody else mentioned Babcock was radioactive at this point lol, it wasn't going to take much being reported on this.
In a different day and age this unfolds differently. But not in 2023 it appears.
I still think all parties called it a day and its like this shit is too much. You can call that a coverup, this isn't watergate here,
Deep throat
