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Originally Posted by troutman
Abuse of employees is not acceptable, whether or not it is racist.
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(Putting the Aliu thing aside for a second, because that is something different).
Define abuse in a hockey context. Is benching someone abuse? Is yelling at poor performance abuse? Is swearing abuse? Where is the line where coaching becomes abuse?
Hockey (and sports in general) are not a typical corporate environment, so how can one expect corporate boilerplate in how coaches address their team.
I find it interesting that everyone is now all of a sudden "NHL coaches are mean!". Yeah no kidding. This board is mean when the Flames don't play well.
I think there's an interesting discussion to be had about what is actually acceptable in modern pro sport, but I don't think those answers are necessarily obvious.