“Early in the 2016-17 season center Peter Holland lost his position to minor league call-up [Byron Froese](https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/nhl/player/byron-froese-sfkfS6TQ1ZH8jdBH/). Hoping to discuss the demotion, Holland went to Leafs practice early. He found Babcock eating his breakfast, and the coach told him he’d find him as soon as he was done. Nearly an hour later Babcock called him into his office.
“You’re here to remind me that you’re still on the team. But you’ve lost your job, and all you can do right now is show up in practice,” Holland recalls Babcock saying. “Now tell me what you came here to tell me, so you can go home and tell your family and your agent that you said what you wanted to say.””
“In the Leafs office, Babcock was known to chastise support staff workers if his routine was derailed or the environment didn’t meet his standards, former players and employees said. He often focused on one person in the office each day and hounded them repeatedly.”
“*The Athletic* spoke with four individuals who worked with Babcock prior to Columbus who said he had used the sharing of private photos as a sort of team-building tactic with them as well.
“He thought he could still do a lot of the things that made it successful in the past. And you can’t do that in today’s age,” said one former Red Wing. “You just can’t. You won’t get away with it.””
thatmorondude
The Rick Nash effect
ddottay
Hiring Babcock ended Jarmo’s and JD’s careers. I don’t think we’ll ever get a real answer why they did it, but sometimes I do wonder if they ever think “that wasn’t worth it.”
CPGK17
Jarmo never should have been allowed to stay on after this hire. Last summer should have been the end of his career in Columbus.
AlanLGuy
What’s more insane is that some people in the NHL don’t think he didn’t anything wrong and he is still getting calls about coaching positions
Fingar-Bangar
McConnells were asleep at the wheel for this one, no surprise there
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Some excerpts:
“Early in the 2016-17 season center Peter Holland lost his position to minor league call-up [Byron Froese](https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/nhl/player/byron-froese-sfkfS6TQ1ZH8jdBH/). Hoping to discuss the demotion, Holland went to Leafs practice early. He found Babcock eating his breakfast, and the coach told him he’d find him as soon as he was done. Nearly an hour later Babcock called him into his office.
“You’re here to remind me that you’re still on the team. But you’ve lost your job, and all you can do right now is show up in practice,” Holland recalls Babcock saying. “Now tell me what you came here to tell me, so you can go home and tell your family and your agent that you said what you wanted to say.””
“In the Leafs office, Babcock was known to chastise support staff workers if his routine was derailed or the environment didn’t meet his standards, former players and employees said. He often focused on one person in the office each day and hounded them repeatedly.”
“*The Athletic* spoke with four individuals who worked with Babcock prior to Columbus who said he had used the sharing of private photos as a sort of team-building tactic with them as well.
“He thought he could still do a lot of the things that made it successful in the past. And you can’t do that in today’s age,” said one former Red Wing. “You just can’t. You won’t get away with it.””
The Rick Nash effect
Hiring Babcock ended Jarmo’s and JD’s careers. I don’t think we’ll ever get a real answer why they did it, but sometimes I do wonder if they ever think “that wasn’t worth it.”
Jarmo never should have been allowed to stay on after this hire. Last summer should have been the end of his career in Columbus.
What’s more insane is that some people in the NHL don’t think he didn’t anything wrong and he is still getting calls about coaching positions
McConnells were asleep at the wheel for this one, no surprise there