Good to see the collective insanity that still pops whenever anyone from our most recent worst era is mentioned under any context.
Green was a fine coach, not a great coach, but a fine one and mostly coaches really show their stripes in their second and third stops in the NHL.
All of this extrapolating and judgment casting “he said a meanie thing and it’s because he is evil and stupid”.
2 things that should be patently obvious:
1. This is professional sports with millions to billions of dollars on the line. This probably isn’t the harshest thing the players heard that day. It’s so clear that many many people here never played serious team sports.
No it’s not okay to humiliate or violate people’s sense of personhood like Babcock clearly did.
But hearing it harsh that “many of you aren’t gonna make the team” and blowing up about that is just soft as a grape without knowing of any special evil context.
Which brings me to:
2. A single tweet that quotes a single sentence without much context. We don’t know how he said it, what he said before it, or what he said after it.
I personally hate all of the famous and unfunny comedians crying about how the world is too woke to laugh at their special jokes (when really they mostly aren’t funny and constantly punch down instead of up which is cowardly and typically not funny), but this is like when some HuffPo blogger would quote a premise as if the comedian said it while staring into the eyes of a crying child.
Get ahold of yourselves and remember that these are people and professionals at that.
It’s not all so cut and dry between good and evil. Sometimes it’s just a decent coach pushing his players and a reporter catching a 2 second sound bite.