100% Hockey's John Shannon (6/10/26)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hey, it's Bob Stauffer. I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to Oilers Now ad-free on Amazon Music, included with Prime. Royal Pizza, the quesadilla has returned, and it's here to stay loaded with seasoned chicken, chipotle, mayo, peppers, onions, and cheese for only $15.95. Visit royalpizza.ca. Well, I mean, obviously, we're talking about the ongoing situation, which is now in the hands of the National Hockey League, as the NHL, PA, and Pierre Lebrun was very specific to state this is tied... to the Columbus Blue Jackets back in 2022, wanting an investigation. A lot of you have some very strong opinions of that, of this whole scenario. Now, it is interesting what's happened as the day has gone on here.
We're getting more texts saying, you know what? Maybe the owners need to dig in here and stand in. Others are like, Stauffer, you're a jerk. You're not acknowledging past transcripts. Nobody's saying for a second that Mike Babcock was perfect in any way, shape, or form. And judging by some of the texts that are coming in, many of you are perfect and have never made any mistakes. Yes, there's been issues with past players. Has he been hard on players? Absolutely. Some would say he's gone far too far with certain players.
What is the ongoing situation regarding Mike Babcock?
Remarkable that how many of you have the actual insight without knowing or being there in the process of it all deliberating and taking place. Now, I will say, I bet you if you asked Mike Babcock, he wished he would have handled the situation specific to Mitch Marner differently. That may have been a mistake. Okay? I bet you if you asked him. In fact, I bet you if you asked Mike Babcock, he'd tell you he's made more than one, two, three mistakes along the way. He's coached for a long time. He's going to have some guys. So I get that understanding. But it seems to be that it's either black or white, and there's not much in the gray. And to me, there could be things in the gray here as well. What's not in the gray is that from an organizational perspective, from the owner to the management to the players, there seemed to be alignment that Mike Babcock was, in fact, their guy.
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How has the NHL responded to the Babcock controversy?
Well, I don't think anybody's disputing Mike Babcock's resume as a hockey coach and what he has done from a technical and a practical point of view of preparing a hockey team to play a game he's one of the best but that doesn't mean that he's without reproach on some of the stuff he has done and how he's treated people. And by the way, Bob, it's not just the players that we're talking about. It's support staff, it's other people in the organization, people in the office that Mike has been accused of not treating properly. which goes to what an investigation that should have probably occurred at the time in Columbus, but everybody decided, well, Mike's not going to coach again. So why drag everybody through the mud one more time?
The Blue Jackets felt they had moved on from it. And so from that perspective, it was deemed that the NHL didn't need to do the investigation. So from that perspective, it's one of those ones where, you know, could it have happened at the time? Yes, but it didn't.
John, do you think it's possible that there was enough sentiment negatively whipped up that the league went to the Columbus Blue Jackets and said, you know what, go find yourself a different coach?
I think it's possible, yeah. I think that there was a lot of influence put on between the Players Association and the league to indicate to the Blue Jackets that perhaps hiring Mike was not the wisest move. and people decided to move on and Mike decided to move on the Blue Jackets decided to move on I think that people within the Blue Jackets organization there are people that felt that Mike was treated harshly there's also people in the organization that feel Mike was treated fairly so which is which is why now this this whole concept of
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:17
2
What is the ongoing situation regarding Mike Babcock?
1:17–2:44
3
How has the NHL responded to the Babcock controversy?
2:44–14:00
4
What insights does John Shannon provide about Babcock's coaching style?
14:00–17:41
5
What are the different perspectives on Babcock's treatment of players?
17:41–18:18
Speakers
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