Look...there are obvious lines that should never be crossed by coaches ....physical abuse of a player of course must not take place...Racial or ethnic slurs too must never be uttered by coaches...BUT verbal abuse for lousy play...when players dog it or keep making the same stupidxerrors or cannot buy in to a system...YES a coach has every right to slam verbally such lax/refuse to work forca full 60/ or cannot buy in to the system players.. COACHES SHOULD yell at such guys till they wake up and do what he wants on the ice...no coach should suffer prima Donna's who think they know how to pjay the game better ...especially when their actions or lack of on the ice are a problem for team winning.
If such players cannot take criticism or consider a coach chewing the out as "verbal and mental abuse" and go crying to Bettman or a Human Rights Comisdion...then we fans have lost the spirit we love to spoiled brats who are so mentally soft they cannot take what has gone on in sports from coaches and fans of the team they play for who are disgustedxwoth their lack of brlngong an A game o a consistent basosxznd for full 6o efforts most games
Coaches should demand excellence...fans expect at lrsstxtgexapoearance of a full 60 yet and focus ...If players want to hide behind fat guaranteed contracts with NMC protections, to get away with such cheating what they were paid so handsomely for,then you betcha coaches AND fans have every right to verbally abuse them till they start playing to the level of their pay checks.
There must t be a boss ...the coach...there must be accountability...to their coach,their team,and to the fans who invest money and tone to watch the team.
Aside from the redline exceptions on such verbal abuse...all the rest of it is justified when the pkayer deserves to be chewed out.. And the language could be salty the exceptions being racial or ethnic slurs or physical abuse.
Apart from those 2 items Bettman should concern himself more with the frauds going on in some markets where fans have been bamboozled into believing there is parity and that their bottom feeder team actually has more than justxa couple ofvlegit nhl calibre players who can compete in a game.
The fraud going on in ChocGo and NJ ...just to name 2 cases of uncompetitive teams pretendingvtheyvare NHL calibre squads Why Isn't Bettman more concerned about these glaring frauds going on?
Instead we gotta investigate incidents from many years ago when the culture and socio-political correctness parameters have changed a lot since those incidents took place.
Not saying what wS done years ago by coaches was justified even then... it rather saying there are more glaring issues to be looked at NOW I involving competitiveness of some teams ...The League trumpets parity..but the facts are that some teams just have no chance..just cannot compete to the level required for even a 50-50 chance at victory most nights..
Fans expect certain standards of play...when this standard fails to show up night after night ....game after game...the fans are getting duped...suckered in by the NHL expecting gMes actually will be a "contest".
If such players cannot take criticism or consider a coach chewing the out as "verbal and mental abuse" and go crying to Bettman or a Human Rights Comisdion...then we fans have lost the spirit we love to spoiled brats who are so mentally soft they cannot take what has gone on in sports from coaches and fans of the team they play for who are disgustedxwoth their lack of brlngong an A game o a consistent basosxznd for full 6o efforts most games
Coaches should demand excellence...fans expect at lrsstxtgexapoearance of a full 60 yet and focus ...If players want to hide behind fat guaranteed contracts with NMC protections, to get away with such cheating what they were paid so handsomely for,then you betcha coaches AND fans have every right to verbally abuse them till they start playing to the level of their pay checks.
There must t be a boss ...the coach...there must be accountability...to their coach,their team,and to the fans who invest money and tone to watch the team.
Aside from the redline exceptions on such verbal abuse...all the rest of it is justified when the pkayer deserves to be chewed out.. And the language could be salty the exceptions being racial or ethnic slurs or physical abuse.
Apart from those 2 items Bettman should concern himself more with the frauds going on in some markets where fans have been bamboozled into believing there is parity and that their bottom feeder team actually has more than justxa couple ofvlegit nhl calibre players who can compete in a game.
The fraud going on in ChocGo and NJ ...just to name 2 cases of uncompetitive teams pretendingvtheyvare NHL calibre squads Why Isn't Bettman more concerned about these glaring frauds going on?
Instead we gotta investigate incidents from many years ago when the culture and socio-political correctness parameters have changed a lot since those incidents took place.
Not saying what wS done years ago by coaches was justified even then... it rather saying there are more glaring issues to be looked at NOW I involving competitiveness of some teams ...The League trumpets parity..but the facts are that some teams just have no chance..just cannot compete to the level required for even a 50-50 chance at victory most nights..
Fans expect certain standards of play...when this standard fails to show up night after night ....game after game...the fans are getting duped...suckered in by the NHL expecting gMes actually will be a "contest".
