Before the start of the regular season Detroit Red Wings forward Andreas Athanasiou expressed a little displeasure with his head coach. Nothing too severe, he just publically mentioned to the media that if he were granted more ice-time, he would be much more productive.
Sometimes that would rub a head coach the wrong way, specifically a veteran coach. I couldn’t imagine a Mike Babcock response to a player expressing something like this publically rather than in a closed-door meeting. Jeff Blashill seemed not to be bothered, and he had an answer for his young forward.