Sens Players Mocking Coaching On Video

[swiftwin]

Stop comparing professional athletes that are paid millions to represent a team professionally to whatever it is you do for daily work.

They're trashing the team in front of a complete stranger and this is inexcusable behavior.

We all know this **** happens in private. The issue is how they represent the team outside of those private moments.

Boucher lost the room last season. He has got to go. Now.

Did the guys ever utter the words Boucher? The only thing I saw them trash talk was the PK and one of the assistant coaches.

 

[llamateizer]

To me, it just sounds like young, frustrated players venting. Part of venting, people grab at low hanging fruit use that to take cheap shots at authority figures, fairly or unfairly. When things don't go well, kids lash out at their parents, their teachers, their boyscout leaders, etc.

Honestly, my take from this is who ever released this video is a an absolute *****e.

If someone offered you $$ to release the video. would you do it? I would in a heartbeat. Specially it's seems to be a legal move

 

[Rubi]

Wow.. just wow.
These players should be ashamed of themselves. Griping in private is one thing but doing it in public where a non-team member can hear you is inexcusable. These guys in the cab deserve to be booed every time they set foot on the ice. I feel sorry for Sens fans.

 

[joe dirte]

Amazing! What a waste of Bachelor of Uber Driving degree! We might as well just grab a random guy off the street and make him drive people around.

Lol.

Uber doesn't take just any old person off the street you know.

You have to have a phone too.

 

[MOGlLNY]

Man, terrible invasion of privacy and obviously this happens with every player on every team. But Duchene going from circus to circus and now this video of him blaming the coaches and saying he hasn't paid attention in 3 weeks around some of the Sens young guns... Wonder how many teams this scares off paying him or trading for him.

 

[Brobust]

I cant even imagine a video leaking of me and my coworkers ripping our boss , 2018 is scary

Always keep your mouth shut when these types of conversations happen. Even if there's no video, the words are bound to get back to the guy getting talked about.

 

[Makar Goes Fast]

as many have said, this is normal and really isn't a big deal. I expect a completely irrational knee-jerk reaction from Melnyk though

 

[Il Stugotz]

Yes, that conversation should not take place where it could be recorded, but if I overheard my team saying that my practices were useless, I’d have to do some serious reflection and have a meaningful conversation with my team.

 

[cgf]

I don’t know how, but Sakic is behind this...

 

[the4thlinegrinder]

I don’t really have a huge issue with what these guys said. Everyone says “my boss is this, my coworker is that” behind closed doors. That it was being recorded and posted to the Internet by some slimy Uber driver doesn’t make it inappropriate for the setting they were in, just reeeeally bad PR.

 

[cgf]

as many have said, this is normal and really isn't a big deal. I expect a completely irrational knee-jerk reaction from Melnyk though

It happening is normal, it becoming public is not. And that changes things. There’s things that can happen behind closed doors that can’t play the same in the open

 

[PeterSidorkiewicz]

Not smart by the players but as a Sens fan I found the banter hilarious.

 

[bleedgreen]

Every team in the league has something like this going on all the time. Unfortunate they got caught, but its part of this new world we're living in. You're always under the microscope. I don't mind anything they say, and it's a little sleazy for the driver to profit off it.

 

[Sol]

Goes to show how players just do what the coaches want so they stop bitching. People act like the system and style a coach implements is a small aspect of the game and that players are the ones who do everything.

It's tic tac toe game to avoid a coach from bitching.

 

[HOPE]

Holy crap thats bad. It sure does bring down duchenes value and the amount of team who will go after him.

 

[Mathieu]

Wow.. just wow.
These players should be ashamed of themselves. Griping in private is one thing but doing it in public where a non-team member can hear you is inexcusable. These guys in the cab deserve to be booed every time they set foot on the ice. I feel sorry for Sens fans.

That would require people to actually attend the games.

 

[AustonsNostrils]

restaurants, law firms, hospitals, factories, retail etc etc - every job i've ever worked at conversations among employees were like this, usually worse than this actually

 

[Advanced stats]

There has to be some sort of response or follow up to this from sens coaching/management.

...so it looks like we'll be "zero days since last sens incident" for the next few days

 

[Big Ed]

I don’t know how, but Sakic is behind this...

He was the driver.

 

[TheBeastCoast]

He’s a contractor while he is accepting fares.

I’m sure a lawyer would have a field day with this.

The guy would get fired and go work for Lyft or something. It is a shitty thing he did but nothing is gonna happen....He works for Uber.

 

[NYR94]

Looks like it's legal to record a conversation in Arizona as long as one party is aware of it.

 

[joe dirte]

as many have said, this is normal and really isn't a big deal. I expect a completely irrational knee-jerk reaction from Melnyk though

I don't really agree. Players saying they dont listen to their coach? I highly doubt there are many NHL players bragging that they've turned out their coaches.

If I'm a GM I wouldn't offer duchene league min contract.

 

[Pukboy5kroner]

Can't disagree with anything being said in the video.

 

[Ruok]

Wow that driver is an absolute dirtbag. Just a total breach of privacy.

 

[DaveMatthew]

As a Sens fan, this is hilarious! Exactly what I'd expect the players to say about the coaching!

 

[stokes84]

What manager is going to want to add Duchene after this? I haven’t paid attention in three weeks. Really???? You’re not good enough to have that kind of attitude.

 

[joe dirte]

I don’t know how, but Sakic is behind this...

Paid duchene to do it.

 

[heretik27]

After seeing this, I wonder what Scotty Bowman's players used to say about him.

 

[Nalens Oga]

You do have to take a minute to appreciate the candidness that we never get even with other sports. Obviously shitty thing and all to do from the Uber driver (why were they not taking a cab btw they're rich) but for us fans, kind of a neat behind the scenes look. And I'm sure every single team has guys that shit on their boss/coach at some point.

This goes back to what I said at one point. Coaches are only responsible for a certain percentage of success or failure. Yes, they implement the X's and O's and set up the team, at the end of the day however it's the players who either execute or don't execute.

This video is literally proving the exact opposite of what you're saying. The players are talking about how shitty their special teams system are and the players are bound to that system.

 

[flamesforcup]

I mean this video rules but it would be even funnier if it was the guys saying "yeah we're not getting enough pucks deep" at each other for five minutes

 

[Little Psycho]

How many days since a sens incident ?

 

[tny760]

Wow that driver is an absolute dirtbag. Just a total breach of privacy.

there's no privacy in public, much less someone else's car

get real

 

[NYR94]

After seeing this, I wonder what Scotty Bowman's players used to say about him.

Or Keenan's.

 

[TheBeastCoast]

After seeing this, I wonder what Scotty Bowman's players used to say about him.

"I wonder how many diamonds are gonna be on this years ring?"

 

[Stand Witness]

Why feel bad for the players? They lambasted a coach and a team in public and got filmed.

Bad luck for them to get filmed but people acting like they were wronged is nonsense.

Well you said it... they got filmed unknowingly. They were wronged. There should be some of professional integrity that the Uber drive should be maintaining.

As a professional and someone providing a service to a client, I can't go around and publicly disclose what they are saying to me, what I overhear, or the information provided to me.

What enters the cab should stay in the cab unless it has legal reasoning to leave it.

 

[Kale Hulls]

It's hilarious how everybody is mad at the driver.

Like... Did he put a gun to anybody's head and tell them to talk ****?