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Players (especially, young players) today feel a lot more entitled and demanding for coaches to accommodate their requests.
New generation of NHL coaches have to adjust and adapt to losing that power over players. This is not necessarily a good thing, but a reality.
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This doesn't surprise me at all. I listened to an interview with Eddie Jones, England rugby coach, and he said something similar. Younger players have such a short attention span, they have had to cut down classroom/video coaching to no more than three items and each has to be no longer than 15 minutes in length, otherwise they stop paying attention. They think they know everything and it takes a while to get them to want to keep learning and playing the way you want them too.