Confirmed with Link: Milbury Steps Down For Remainder of Playoffs

[smithformeragent]

NBC Sports' Mike Milbury steps down after making sexist comment about women

Let’s discuss this topic here and keep the out of town thread focused on hockey.

REMINDER: no politics

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[Dennis Bonvie]

He shouldn't have to step down.

But I certainly won't miss him.

 

[caz16]

Good riddance for lots of reasons.

 

[SPLBRUIN]

No fan of the guy, but to be sent home for what he said, sad reflection on our times.

 

[McGarnagle]

I'm not a fan of him at all, but that's a f***ing joke.

 

[BMC]

This is just so much bullshit. Milbury certainly could have phrased it better but he isn't incorrect. Just ask #88 and #40.....

 

[CDJ]

I hope they allow him back next year, I don’t think he should lose his job over this

tbh I disliked his Tuukka comments more

 

[Durnberg]

I don’t like him, cancel culture is worse.

Would it have been ok if he had said “handsome men” as well?

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Seems to me his comment wasn't being sexist about women but rather about men.

 

[CDJ]

Seems to me his comment wasn't being sexist about women but rather about men.

lol tbh I kinda thought the same thing, if anything he’s saying men are such meatheads they can’t Completely focus on the task at hand if there are women around

 

[smithformeragent]

 

[Alicat]

I actually find what Marc-Andre Fleury's agent posted on twitter more egregious than what Milbury said

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

I can't eye roll hard enough at this.

Every time someone concedes to the cancel culture social media they reach even further the next time

 

[Aeroforce]

Seems to me his comment wasn't being sexist about women but rather about men.

That's exactly how I interpreted it when I heard it during the game. As a retired player, it was self-deprecating humor from Milbury.

I dislike how today only the most generic, cookie cutter, safe presentations are deemed acceptable; all the while people want more 'personality' in the game? I disagree that acting like a little leaguer with a childish, staged goal celebration equals personality.

I've always been a big fan of Kathryn Tappen, whose professionalism carries the between periods show. She was the needed balance when Roenick or Milbury (deliberately) pushed others' buttons.

Now that it's just KT and Patrick Sharpe, it's like watching Barbie and Ken regurgitate hockey cliches.

It's safe; non-threatening; it's apparently what the public demands. But it has no edge.

 

[KrejciMVP]

Haha i was thinking about that quote too

 

[lopey]

Too many people are way to sensitive now. Made a joke. Bad joke but it was made in jest.

 

[LouJersey]

People have become so incredibly soft if this was a comment that bothered them. Everyone knew when he meant.

 

[lopey]

Milbury should be canned because he is bad at what he does imo

 

[the_fan]

Good

 

[McGarnagle]

I actually find what Marc-Andre Fleury's agent posted on twitter more egregious than what Milbury said

Yeah, if Fleury doesn't fire that dude today, he's insane.

 

[DiggityDog]

I can’t believe a guy who once assaulted a person with his own shoe said something stupid on the air...

Just. Can’t. Believe. It.

 

[DiggityDog]

Yeah, if Fleury doesn't fire that dude today, he's insane.

Imagine being Fleury telling his agent he is frustrated with the situation and his agent is like “Don’t worry, I’ll take care of it dude, I know exactly what to do”

And then posts that shit. Remarkable.

 

[N o o d l e s]

This whole situation seems like a total overreaction like everything else today but also he’s no loss on the broadcasts

 

[TheReal13Linseman]

I can’t believe a guy who once assaulted a person with his own shoe said something stupid on the air...

Just. Can’t. Believe. It.

That Ranger fan “had it coming.“

 

[Gee Wally]

Theres sometimes a time and a place for most things.
He wiffed on both.