zeke
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In a way, Babcock is almost lucky that so much of the focus has been on his off-ice behaviour and character in the wake of getting fired. It's taken a lot of the focus away from his brutal roster deployment and on-ice tactics.
He can always come back in the future and claim to have worked on himself and changed. But the way he managed this roster and the systems he had them playing cuts straight to the core of how good or bad he is as a head coach, and that's a lot harder to hand-wave away.
what's hilarious is that his tactics were similar to and nearly as bad as Randy's.....except at least Randy had the decency to play the fuck out of his stars.