Would you hire Mike Babcock as your team's head coach?

[LarKing]

I feel like he's a guy that can get it done with a great team (Detroit, Canada) but the players hate him. I wouldn't want him for a rebuilding team but might take a shot with him if I'm a team like the Capitals before their Cup.

 

[bert]

If my team was coming out of a rebuild and starting to contend he would be a great guy to push a team over the hump. I dont think he belongs anywhere near a young/or rebuilding team.

 

[MattySnipes]

Wow. 90% to 10% in favour of not hiring Babcock as team's coach. That sure is lopsided!

 

[Conspiracy Theorist]

Wouldn't he be good for the Bruins?

 

[b1e9a8r5s]

If I had a vet team that I was trying to take one more run at it, maybe

 

[Incognito]

No. Even if I wasn't a Leafs fan and was seeing it from another franchise's perspective, my answer would still be no. I wouldn't want someone with the character and integrity issues that Babcock has leading my team from behind the bench.

 

[OilCanada92]

Man, this board did a 180 since their annual "Jack Adams is an award for the coach that did better than expected if it was an award for best coach Mike Babcock would win it every year" posts.

Nothing wrong with adjusting your opinion when presented with new information.

 

[SHANNYPLAN]

Yes. A team like the Blue Jackets, Wild, Stars, Ducks or Islanders (gritty, veteran team lacking star power) would be a good fit (although I like Torts and Trotz more at this point)

He can make a bad team good, but he cant make a good team great.

 

[Randy Randerson]

a Seattle landing makes sense for him if that franchise is willing to look past this bad media, and likely by then it's either old news or he's shown some humility and it's water under the bridge. He's a very recognizable coach, so going to a team that is likely to be bad & searching for an on-ice identity for a while would give the team something to market and more than enough runway that he's likely replaced by the time they actually start to compete.

The Vegas story is likely an outlier and expansion franchises going forward are probably back to that 7-10 years of existence before any real dividends get paid on the ice, so that makes sense to me.

I don't think Babcock is a coach you choose to win with, he's been blessed with great teams and ridden them to victory, then mis-allocated the credit to himself imo

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Nothing wrong with adjusting your opinion when presented with new information.

I agree, it's just interesting what a 180 this was. Went from best in the league AINEC to a leper.

 

[HFBS]

Can't afford his eye doctor.

 

[Karl Eriksson]

Depends. Do I already have a list of my players from most to least defensively responsible?

 

[BK201]

Probably he's probably better than most Sens coaches for the last decade.

 

[Romang67]

In light of recent events I'm gonna go ahead and change my vote to no.

 

[OilCanada92]

I agree, it's just interesting what a 180 this was. Went from best in the league AINEC to a leper.

That's how I was. I thought Toronto was using him as a scapegoat but now I'm thinking Toronto used the losses as a scapegoat to get rid of a problem very few outside of the hockey world knew they had.

 

[Pyrophorus]

Probably he's probably better than most Sens coaches for the last decade.

I would say not better, than the current one.

 

[Bramskii]

As a Devils fan, I wouldn't even think twice about it. Yes.

 

[Eternal Leaf]

Forget the Marner thing, he's incredibly stubborn about what he wants as a coach. It gets ridiculous after a while.

But I think he would work well with an experienced team.

 

[M88K]

Depends who else is available, he wouldn't be the top of my list of coaches but if he was the best available coach at the time, yeah why not?

 

[Ryan120420]

I'd hire him as an assistant coach to put the fear of god into a slumping group of players and coaching staff.

 

[ManwithNoIdentity]

No

 

[82Ninety42011]

I think he has lost all respect with this physcho test he put Marner through with his list. Apparently isn't first time he's done this as has come out did something similar in Detroit as well. He thinks he's smarter then everyone and went too far. I wouldn't let him near my team personally.

 

[Paul4587]

Babcock was at the helm when the Leafs went from being a laughing stock to a respectable playoff team who despite their clear issues on the backend managed to push the Bruins to 7 games two years in a row.

Like all coaches he has his flaws but he’s nowhere near as bad as hfboards makes out.