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McDavid has as many goals (18) as the Coyotes' leading scorer (Nick Schmaltz) has points. Draisaitl has more points (47) than the next 3 Coyotes after Schmaltz combined (42). However the Coyotes trail the Oilers by only 3 points, have a game in hand, and have a better goal differential (+14 vs +11).

James Neal has more goals than any player on the Calgary Flames this season.

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U guys hear about the marner story, what Babcock did to him as a rookie? It's pretty fucked up

no, now im super interested though, links pls lol

As the story goes, Mike Babcock was frustrated with Mitch Marner for his perceived laziness in the first half of his rookie season. According to multiple sources, during the Father’s Weekend road trip in January of 2017, Babcock asked Marner to rank his teammates’ effort level that season in order of 1 through 20, ranging from the hardest working to the laziest.

Marner obliged, and, per multiple sources, put himself at the bottom of the list, with both parties agreeing that he needed to work harder without the puck. What Babcock didn’t tell Marner was that he was preparing to show this list to some of the players who Marner had ranked towards the bottom.

Specifically, per multiple sources, Tyler Bozak and Nazem Kadri.

According to multiple sources, Marner was in tears after the details of his list were shared, while his teammates were furious — specifically with Babcock. They couldn’t believe their head coach would put a 19-year-old in that situation, especially considering how well-liked Marner was in the dressing room.

I’ve spoken to numerous connected sources over the past few hours to break down exactly how Babcock has done similar things to other players he’s coached in the past.

According to one source, a nearly identical situation happened during Babcock’s time in Detroit, involving a young Red Wings forward. The source explained that Babcock asked the player questions about his teammates that were similar to the ones he would ask Marner, and then promptly shared the answers with the rest of the team.




Kadri apparently stuck up for Marner, and pretty much asked WTF r u doing Babcock

This post was edited by Secksii on Nov 25 2019 12:56am

that's just a completely unnecessary dick move. wth

I knew he was a dickhead from all his years here, but thats low as fuck. Im interested in which player it was for us too.. damn. No wonder kenny let him walk.

For the life of me, i couldnt figure out why we just let babcock walk away (aside from the fact we couldnt match anywhere near what toronto offered him) and stuck with blashill. Blashill is significantly worse, and at that point had very limited nhl experience (only one year as assistant to babcock). Fuck that guy.

This post was edited by AB75 on Nov 25 2019 01:49am

damn thats pretty fucked up didnt think you would have whack shit like that in the nhl
seems weird a coach would potentially pit players vs each other in the locker room though wonder what he thought it would accomplish

if kadri stuck up for him that was probably the best result but the worst result could be pretty shitty making that room real awkward

This post was edited by dragoneth on Nov 25 2019 05:51pm

I think a coach shaming someone for being lazy in front of team / during video review is pretty common since no one likes to see people putting in poor effort

But having the player put down a list like this and have it pass around the room is pretty low lol

no doubt its common practice for a coach to call out a player
but yeah t omake a player make a list and throw his teammates under the bus then throw him under the bus showing them is like WHAT
seems like a good way to make players hate each other if thy dont see how stupid of an idea it is

This post was edited by dragoneth on Nov 25 2019 07:32pm