The NHL is changing: No team can afford a Bill Peters in its midst anymore Globe_Sports
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From now on, every team will ask prospective employees, “You haven’t by any chance slurred any racial minorities, have you? Sucker-punched the backup goalie? And, please God, tell us you have never made any bizarre lists.” The other night, Florida Panthers defenceman Keith Yandle lost nine teeth after taking a puck in the face and still finished the game. A regular-season game in November.I don’t care how tough they are in pro rugby or the NFL. Nobody else does that.
A lot of good things have gone out of fashion recently – reasoned public debate, empathy, drinking at lunch. But it is heartening to see how quickly bullying has gone from something discouraged in our society to an outright taboo.That’s the heart of this. It’s what lots of people – even those who don’t care all that much about hockey – responded to. Absolutely no one likes a bully.
For a lot of people, Babcock will no longer be remembered as the guy who won gold. He’s the weirdo with the list.I’m sure most people in the NHL took this as the usual public beating any failed coach takes after he’s sacked. He was once a genius. Now he’s an idiot.That’s how Treliving ends up at a podium, at times near tears, saying, “I pray that nobody in this room or anybody else has to go through this.
But the way in which the NHL presents itself to the paying public must change immediately. No team can afford a Bill Peters in its midst. Tolerating such a person has become a sort of infection – if you knew about it, you may also find yourself being cut out.That is what has the NHL so rattled. A great moral shift is also a business opportunity. A new cohort of coaches and executives might use this as a basis to attack the older, entrenched one.
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