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Originally Posted by habernac
A young Scotty Bowman was coaching the Blues. Their farm team at the time was in Kansas City. He was having issues with some of his players spending a lot of time in the pub and not concentrating enough on hockey. He walked into the pub post game and past his players and went over to the jukebox. He put in his quarter and selected a song. "Kansas City Here I Come" started playing. He didn't have much issue with his players not taking the game seriously after that.
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And I bet if he'd told Barclay Plager that he was a ##### for not playing injured, Bowman would have been fed his lunch.
Again, there is a difference here between enforcement through intimidation, it's quite another to intimidate a player to fight and play injured at the risk of their professional livelihood.