Our Uncle Mike Babcock returns tonight. Back to the place where he won, and won a lot. Back to face the team he led, guided, developed and....it's starting to come out now...alienated.
Now we start to hear the rumbles, and now may be the time to say that maybe the decision wasn't his and his alone.
Ken Holland is a master communicator and will never say it, but now we're getting it in broken Swede.
“The way he locked on things. The criticism. Hockey was 24/7 for him, and he demanded that of his players.