Ex-NHL star rages: “Worst person I’ve ever met”

Mike Babcock is currently going through difficult times: Just a week after he was fired from the Toronto Maple Leafs due to poor results, Toronto striker Mitch Marner revealed explosive details about Babcock's way of working. When he was still a rookie, the 22-year-old Canadian had to rank all players according to their work ethic. Babcock then showed the list to the players Marner had listed at the end of the rankings. “I was lucky that no teammate felt hurt by this list,” Marner recently told the TV station TSN . However, it was humiliating for him as a rookie.

No single case It is not the only controversial action in the career of Stanley Cup winner Babcock: In the 2010/11 season, the Canadian cut ice hockey legend Mike Modano from the Detroit Red Wings squad to prevent him from doing so Plays 1.500 NHL games. Modano ended his career with 1.499 games in the best league in the world. The last incident was only two months ago: Babcock, who was still coach of the Maple Leafs at the time, did not play for Jason Spezza in the first game of the season with the Ottawa Senators - even though the Canadian was possibly playing his last season and eleven years for the Senators arose. It was his attacks that were floating around in my head. Every day. The allegations made by Swede Johan Franzen, who played under Babcock for the Detroit Red Wings, are even more serious: During the 2012 playoffs, Babcock is said to have "verbally assaulted" the Swede, according to Franzen's teammate Chris Chelios. As a result, Franzen, who has since resigned, would have had nervous breakdowns. “Just thinking about it sends shivers down my spine,” Franzen, who has only been able to sleep normally since last year, told the Swedish newspaper Expressen (Monday edition). But this incident was only the tip of the iceberg. “From 2011 onwards, I was scared at every training session,” says the 39-year-old. Although Franzen describes Babcock as a meticulous and well-prepared worker, he is the worst person he has ever met.

It is still unclear whether these statements will have consequences for the Canadian. It is highly unlikely that Babcock will be back behind the gang any time soon.

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Ex-NHL star rages: “Worst person I’ve ever met”

Scandals surrounding current and former NHL coaches continue to show up: After racist statements cost Bill Peters his job last week, star coach Mike Babcock is now in the firing line.

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