Elliotte Friedman on Mike Babcock, Tanner Pearson and the Canucks
Hockey Night in Canada Insider Elliotte Friedman joined the guys to continue to chat about the Mike Babcock story, Tanner Pearson coming back and the Canucks cap crunch.
It blows my mind that we're dealing not just with grown adults but millionaires and they have to hand over their cell phone like they're in prison or an abusive school. The coach's job isn't to judge a player's personal life. His job is to put a system in place that will help the team win. The players' personal lives are fundamentally irrelevant unless they approach the coach or someone else in the organization with a mental health concern. A player's cell phone goes far beyond the scope of a coach's job and is none of their business. I was on a swim team for over a decade and no coach once pried into private information like that. Sure, I've dealt with unprofessional coaches, but even the most unprofessional coach I dealt with didn't care what I was doing outside of the pool beyond the usual diet, exercise and sleep routine. Whether I had a girlfriend or not was none of his concern as long as I was on time for practices and swim competitions and put the effort in. I've never heard of a coach doing something like this and not ending up at least fired.
It would be good PR to move Pearson to a team he wants to go to for like a 4th rounder. We certainly wouldn't get a lot for him anyway so maybe focus on doing right by Tanner.
Moving Pearson is the solution to your cap problem. It gives you enough space to ride out the final year of Myers and then you have real breathing room.
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Elliot is always an S tier guest!
Always enjoy when elliotes on
Insane how quickly the story changed and then he was gone.
It blows my mind that we're dealing not just with grown adults but millionaires and they have to hand over their cell phone like they're in prison or an abusive school. The coach's job isn't to judge a player's personal life. His job is to put a system in place that will help the team win. The players' personal lives are fundamentally irrelevant unless they approach the coach or someone else in the organization with a mental health concern. A player's cell phone goes far beyond the scope of a coach's job and is none of their business. I was on a swim team for over a decade and no coach once pried into private information like that. Sure, I've dealt with unprofessional coaches, but even the most unprofessional coach I dealt with didn't care what I was doing outside of the pool beyond the usual diet, exercise and sleep routine. Whether I had a girlfriend or not was none of his concern as long as I was on time for practices and swim competitions and put the effort in. I've never heard of a coach doing something like this and not ending up at least fired.
Blue jackets GM and president should be the next to go.
I think management has to go, worst decision ever made.
It would be good PR to move Pearson to a team he wants to go to for like a 4th rounder. We certainly wouldn't get a lot for him anyway so maybe focus on doing right by Tanner.
There is no free lunch kids, no soup for you
Gossip trumps facts in this culture
Friedman sided with Gaudreau who is a documented lying pos over Biz.
F'k Friedman.
Columbus attractive play and improvement in regular season?
coming back from injury, would it help Pearson to play short while in AHL to start season?
any teams with cap space that could use Canucks winger(s)?
Say what you will about Mike Babcock but the dude fleeced the blue jackets for 8 million dollars.
Moving Pearson is the solution to your cap problem. It gives you enough space to ride out the final year of Myers and then you have real breathing room.
This tells the nhl all they need to know that players had to reach out to biz rather than management .
Babs could not change his ways.
Elliot is top notch. Shows how far our media need to go to be taken seriously.
Babcock is toxic, who invites a player to their home and does this sort of stunt?
Elliote Shillman
Is that Elliottee pic a joke?
Let's all agree not to talk about Babcock again.
Elliotte Friedman is irrelevant. Seriously, what does he know??
Mike Babcock is a weirdo