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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
It's the team doctors who are responsible to diagnose him and the GM to put him on IR. The fact they didn't do that shows that they expected Parker to play and do his thing. He wasn't exactly good at anything else. If Hartley doesn't convince him to do it, he wouldn't have been doing his job and would have been judged if the team lost. He was doing what he was hired to do. A culture change was needed, but it starts at the top. It's a classic case of don't hate the player, hate the game.
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Team doctors? Look at when this happened. Look at what happened to Sheldon Souray. At the time doctors had little to do with it.
As for doing his job, it’s actually always been wrong for a coach to tell a player to fight when he doesn’t want to. Parker wasn’t saying “I will never fight” either. He was saying “I can’t fight tonight”. It wasn’t even in a game after something ji happened on ice.
Sarich had a lot too say and not just about the one incident. Like the NTCs. But again, what you are doing is trying to pick apart numerous claims instead of thinking “wow, why are there so many anti-Hartley players”? It’s funny, no one here calls Commodore a liar or exaggerator when he talks about Babcock. I think people just don’t want to believe things about Hartley and bend over backwards to dismiss the stories of people who have zero reason to come forward and lie.
ETA: There have been plenty of tough coaches who players didn’t like personally. Bowman, Sutter, Keenan, etc. Heck, even Badger’s personality rubbed some players the wrong way. But you didn’t get these kind of stories.