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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
What are you suggesting here? Try to fire the coach with cause for an ambiguous physical incident and throwing chairs? Or fire the coach without cause and eat $8M for an ambiguous physical incident and throwing chairs?
While it's easy to say that it shouldn't be that hard to determine where the line of reasonable behaviour is, but that's simply not true in reality when it comes to firing someone in the ####ed up world of pro sports.
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It's hockey culture and it is hanging on by a thread. Organizations that represent a proud nation very recently covered up sexual harassment by players; allegedly of course but c'mon, stuff went on.
Men are still allowed to punch each other in the face to the roar of the crowd. Where else can that happen?
A coach throws a couple of chairs and now everyone is appalled? I'm older, and I'm old school but the times they are 'a changin'! This type of behaviour by your boss is no longer being put up with in any industry, for some time now, and it's trickling down to these last holdouts of the old ways; hockey being probably the best (?) example of it, at least in the Western world. I'm sure throwing chairs and garbage cans was a lot more prevalent by coaches in hockey, and many other sports, not oh so long ago.
Edit: Sorry, probably should have posted this in the drunkpuck thread, seems rambly and disjointed! Made sense to me so I hope everyone can make sense of it.