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IfGodCouldDie posted...

It's more than "kind of a dick move" it straight up is a dick move.

Eh, I dunno. I think you can pretty clearly see what the idea was here. He had the opportunity to use his scheme to motivate Marner to try and motivate other players as well. Imagine Marner ranks Matthews like 15th or something. Babcock then takes that to Matthews and says "Hey! This young guy who we're all counting on to take us to the next level - who isn't playing hard - doesn't see you as someone who plays very hard either! What does that say about you? Be a better role model! Play harder!"

Now maybe there's a way to do that without "outing" Marner as the guy who made the list. Then again, maybe "increasing friction between Marner and the other players" was a deliberate and intentional goal. Maybe Babcock thought the other players were going too easy on Marner and something like this would help motivate them to ride his ass as well, so it wasn't just coming from the grumpy old coach.

All of this falls under the overall umbrella of "it's bad because it didn't work," but it seems pretty damn obvious to me that if a couple bounces go Toronto's way in Game 7 and they beat the Bruins, we aren't even having this conversation right now, so whatever. He's a "horrible human being" for the sin of not winning. If he wins, all of this is forgiven at the least and possibly heralded as psychological brilliance.
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