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Originally Posted by Major Major
Cool story bro moment...
I got a chance to do some assistant coaching with a prep team out of winsport after I was done college. When the dome was tied up, the flames and whatever visiting team was in town would come practice. We'd mostly try to stay out of their way obviously, but Babcock was the only coach who went out of his Way to talk to me and the other young coach. He took an interest in what we were up to and provided some neat tidbits.
We didn't talk long, but he actually asked us if we could let them borrow a goalie for practice as mrazek was banged up. And so came the highlight of one goalie's young career.
The wings were by far the loosest team we saw come through. They were joking around tons and Babcock seemed pretty jovial with the players. I pretty much had the opposite impression of him as what is being portrayed now. I'm not trying to flip the narrative or say the players criticizing him are wrong, but just that like everyone he's got different sides to him and is probably not the embodiment of evil scum.
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Thanks for sharing this. cool story!
I met Mike Keenan the summer before he started with the flames at an airport. I shyly went up to him to let him know I was a die hard flames fan and wishing him luck in the new gig. He was super nice & friendly during our brief conversation also.
I have no doubt, both were very big hard-asses in their job. My view is that there is a difference between a hard ass leader and a person who goes past the line of leader to ... I don't know what word I'd use. Both of these guys, have clearly gone past that line in their past.
I'm sure coaching tactics will evolve through this movement, and make coaches better people leaders rather than fear mongerers.