Our Rotting Sport

I had so very much hoped we were going to close the book on the Mike Babcock era and that we would move forward, hand in hand, into a new and wholesome era of victory and expected goals. Ah, but:

This “tactic” of Babcock’s is very much to his discredit. It’s manipulative and nasty. It demeans a rookie in the eyes of his teammates. It exerts power over a teenager by embarrassing him. It is a lousy way to treat people and a lousy way to coach a hockey team.