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Originally Posted by Manhattanboy
I posted this in the other thread but obviously applies to Babcock:
What is about most coaches (particularly NHL/hockey generally) that the default position of their personality is ###hole?
Were they insecure as kids, bullied, unsuccessful? For the most part these guys strike me as inarticulate, certainly not very bright.
What is with the constant f-bomb dropping bully type (see for eg. the HBO series Road to the Winter Classic where Bruce Boudreau could not string a sentence together unless it was full of expletives)?
Does being a ####head motivate players to excel? Because if I had a boss like that I would be out of here before the end of the day.
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Certain types of sociopathy can help you perform mentally under extreme social pressure. People like that don't handle stress any better, they just don't experience as much stress because they genuinely just don't give a F about others. A massive ego also shields from performance stress. If you think you're Gods Gift to Hockey and think every problem is someone else's fault, you don't worry as much about messing up.
It's not just hockey. Cutthroat do-or-die environments generally favor people with either massive egos or anti-social tendencies, or both. They also very likely lead people to develop those kinds of tendencies as a coping mechanism.