Babcock resigning as CBJ Head Coach *Mod note, post #687*

[Divine]

I think there can be some nuance here that isn't Jenner dismissing the young player's concerns or defending Babcock. It's entirely possible that Jenner got the same treatment but just didn't have an issue with it like younger players did.

I think it is entirely possible that the same thing happened to both, but the dynamic between a coach and a team's captain signed long-term versus a coach and a young player not yet in the NHL made the responses way different. It was an inappropriate ask in both situations but Jenner may not have been threatened by it.

Is it entirely possible, when you have information like THIS coming out:

Mike Babcock resigns as Blue Jackets head coach following photo controversy

Mike Babcock will resign as head coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets on Sunday.

www.sportsnet.ca

According to multiple sources, one of the most serious concerns was a meeting that occurred away from team facilities that included “several minutes” of looking through a phone. That was beyond the scope of what was initially understood to have occurred.

 

[CapspaceKiller]

Good riddance to the weirdo

Everything wrong with hockey just left the door

 

[Some Other Flame]

 

[Sun God Nika]

Jason York is probably very happy

 

[CDJ]

“He spent Several minutes going through photos and apps”


This dude is so damn suspect
Why do that?

Babs the Perv, it’s pretty obvious but only commodore has said it

 

[cyris]

I cannot believe I defended this guy when he scratched Spezza in front of his family. Lesson well learned on my part.

What a disaster of a hire for CBJ. Every sign was there and they went for it anyways.

This also should just about do it for his NHL career. Amazing he went to the Leafs as a probable Hall of Famer and here we are less then 10 years later, re-signing in disgrace from CBJ after being fired by Toronto.

At the time I thought he did it because he thought he was making the best lineup. And even though I disagreed with him, I believe his intentions were good.

Then as I learned more about Babs I understood it was all about the mind games. He did it because it was to be his first game and all his family was there. Maybe he did it to make himself the common enemy in the dressing room, maybe he had some other reason. But the guy can’t be a coach in the modern world

 

[GarlicbreadTB]

He did something similar in Detroit, too, but I can't remember. Something to do with Modano I think. Scratched him in an important game for him I believe.

Yeah scratched him before his 1500th game.

 

[Mike C]

Even as one of the many, many people that knew this was a bad hire that’d inevitably end in hilarious disaster, I was expecting him to at least coach some games.

Urban freaking Meyer lasted longer in Jacksonville than Babcock in Columbus.

To your point, the guy who hired him in the first place should be FIRED pronto!

 

[ghostingtaro]

good coach but a shitty person

 

[DamonDRW]

There is a mentally fragile person in this story, and its not one of the players.

That's easy to kick a defeated dog, right? The whole modern generation prefers an easy way.

 

[BraveCanadian]

Amazing to get a second chance and blow it so spectacularly like this..

 

[FunkySeeFunkyDo]

wait, is he resigning or resigning? quitting or getting a long term deal?

Do you mean resigning or re-signing”? Because you wrote “resigning or resigning“.

 

[Kranix]

Hockey is a very tough sport. A lot of things should stay between a coach and his players.

Hand your phone over to your boss and let him swipe through your gallery and apps tomorrow

 

[Ragamuffin Gunner]

You’re quoting tweets happening in real time, we didn’t have any of this information 5 minutes ago. All I said is the depth of the investigation wasn’t out yet.

The info was out there, you just didn't want to believe Biz and Whit. You preferred to believe a known asshole and bully.

 

[MilkofthePoppy]

Mike Babcock is banned from Collision

Kojima! Kojima! Kojima!

 

[MrHeiskanen]

If Columbus wants to accomplish anything ownership needs to get rid of Davidson and Jarmo, two incompetent individuals who have done nothing their entire careers.

 

[norrisnick]

Hockey is a very tough sport. A lot of things should stay between a coach and his players.

Look up David Frost. Or maybe Graham James.

 

[Ezekial]

Canucks’ McWard, Hirose embracing competition: 'That just pushes me harder'

Following up their end-of-season auditions in April, Cole McWard and Akito Hirose are having a strong showing at the Canucks' Young Stars tournament.

www.sportsnet.ca

Friedman quote:



Maybe Boone Jenner should talk to his teammates before trying to put out the fire. Talk about being a bad captain.

Spittin Chiclets did more for the team than the CBJ 'leadership' who said no one would have a problem with it

So absolutely insane, it seemed so weird that he would actually be handling phones and thumbing through them. Definitely deserved. I was willing to wait due to the way Jenner and some former players characterized the process, but that shit is so bonkers.
I've handed my phone to my bosses on multiple occasions (I work in a trade and have to send/show them pictures of leaks/equipment nameplates/etc) but they aren't thumbing through it or have any interest in seeing my other pictures.

 

[Cas]

Hockey is a very tough sport. A lot of things should stay between a coach and his players.

Hockey is a sport. The NHL is a business. Managers do not (or at least should not) get to look through their employees' phones.

 

[Dogewow]

At the end it is going to be a bad look or a harsh word... Mentally fragile players pretending to be professionals.

That's why Toronto core won just a series in a decade while Columbus will need to wait another decade to make the playoffs for the third time in 30 years..

Expecting a basic level of fair treatment and privacy in the workplace is not being "mentally fragile". Some serious bozo takes here in this thread...

 

[Zen Arcade]

I can't begin to describe how much I hated that book. It was recommended to me by a girl I was seeing. At one point I asked her what made her think I'd enjoy it and she confessed she hadn't actually read the whole thing, she had instead made the recommendation based on a single passage she'd read.

I worked so hard to forget that book ever existed, haven't thought about it in over a decade, and I'm mad at you for reminding me about it.

That's funny because that's exactly how I found out about it. I didn't hate it but I felt like it was pretty overrated.

At least my ex actually took the time to read the whole thing.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

A LOT of posters with a lot of egg on their face.

 

[Empoleon8771]

The whole "cancel culture" talk doesn't even make sense because fans mostly weren't scraming for Babcock to be fired. You had just as many fans trying to dismiss these allegations based on Spittin' Chicklets having a questionable reputation. There wasn't an outcry from fans or media for Babcock to be fired, just because of how much uncertainty there was with the accusations.

Again, this is a union protecting its members. This isn't cancel culture, this is the NHLPA defending NHL players from being mistreated by coaches.

 

[norrisnick]

That's easy to kick a defeated dog, right? The whole modern generation prefers an easy way.

Right, as if bullying players into compliance rather than actually working to encourage and motivate them isn't the 'easy way'...

 

[gritdash60]

That's easy to kick a defeated dog, right? The whole modern generation prefers an easy way.

Calling Babcock a "defeated dog" is some next level mental gymnastics, after what Franzen said about his antics i cant believe there is still people who defend him.