Yes

So we can be in the same lEEgue

Has the salad been tossed?
- mr.peanut

What kind of (frank)ing atrocity is that on your avatard?! Jesus (frank)ing Christ peanut!!

Babs stepping down

Babs stepping down
- mr.peanut

He’s a weird dude

He’s a weird dude
- Snots33_77

"dumb" and "completely disconnected from reality" also come to mind as ways to describe him.

"dumb" and "completely disconnected from reality" also come to mind as ways to describe him.
- Pat1993

Sounds like he's ready for a return to the Leafs.

Sounds like he's ready for a return to the Leafs.
- jugkope

Mike Babkope

Sounds like he's ready for a return to the Leafs.
- jugkope

Mike Babkope
- mr.peanut

Mike Babrooster

Babs stepping down
- mr.peanut

finally an opportunity for Vincent. only took him 15 years, needed to move to another organization, and watched that organization hire /fire an idiot.
but it's not over yet, they have still time to hire a new guy.

finally an opportunity for Vincent. only took him 15 years, needed to move to another organizatio, and watched that organization hire /fire an idiot.
but it's not over yet, they have still time to hire a new guy.
- fidopro

The GM and president both should be fired too

finally an opportunity for Vincent. only took him 15 years, needed to move to another organizatio, and watched that organization hire /fire an idiot.
but it's not over yet, they have still time to hire a new guy.
- fidopro

would be funny if CLB still had to respect his contract and pay him, but in this case they probably don't since he was fired for breaking the team's and/or the NHLPA's policies.

would be funny if CLB still had to respect his contract and pay him, but in this case they probably don't since he was fired for breaking the team's and/or the NHLPA's policies.
- Pat1993

he resigned. so maybe they still do have t pay him. but i think the leafs are still paying him anyway.

he resigned. so maybe they still do have t pay him. but i think the leafs are still paying him anyway.
- Gramps28

Nah. He waited for his leafs deal to expire

he resigned. so maybe they still do have t pay him. but i think the leafs are still paying him anyway.
- Gramps28

huh, interesting... I wonder why they were that nice and let him resign instead of just firing him, it's not like it would make the decision to hire him in the first place look any worse.



“This was a difficult decision on everyone’s part, but one we felt necessary to ensure our focus remains on the players and the team’s upcoming season,” said Blue Jackets general manager and alternate governor Jarmo Kekalainen said in the same release. “On behalf of the entire Blue Jackets organization, we want to thank Mike for his hard work and the professionalism he has shown in working together on a plan to step down.”



yeah, good ol' Mike and his legendary professionalism

Nah. He waited for his leafs deal to expire
- mr.peanut

ah. what did they end up paying him?

finally an opportunity for Vincent. only took him 15 years, needed to move to another organizatio, and watched that organization hire /fire an idiot.
but it's not over yet, they have still time to hire a new guy.
- fidopro

Remember, they wanted Lefebvre during covid, maybe they can approach the Panthers...

huh, interesting... I wonder why they were that nice and let him resign instead of just firing him, it's not like it would make the decision to hire him in the first place look any worse.



“This was a difficult decision on everyone’s part, but one we felt necessary to ensure our focus remains on the players and the team’s upcoming season,” said Blue Jackets general manager and alternate governor Jarmo Kekalainen said in the same release. “On behalf of the entire Blue Jackets organization, we want to thank Mike for his hard work and the professionalism he has shown in working together on a plan to step down.”



yeah, good ol' Mike and his legendary professionalism
- Pat1993

I mean how were they to know he was going to creep phones. he shouldn't have been hired for other reasons, imo

ah. what did they end up paying him?
- Gramps28

it was an 8-year 50M contract...

I mean how were they to know he was going to creep phones. he shouldn't have been hired for other reasons, imo
- Gramps28

The Mailloux effect.

I mean how were they to know he was going to creep phones. he shouldn't have been hired for other reasons, imo
- Gramps28

well his past actions speak for themselves and were enough for the organization to worry about him doing something very dumb...

well his past actions speak for themselves and were enough for the organization to worry about him doing something very dumb...
- Pat1993

this

"dumb" and "completely disconnected from reality" also come to mind as ways to describe him.
- Pat1993

Like…..you’d think you’d kinda TRY to clean up your act and NOT do anything cringe-worthy or so (frank)ed that you lose the trust of the room asap ….???

well his past actions speak for themselves and were enough for the organization to worry about him doing something very dumb...
- Pat1993

You HAVE to think that, not only the GM, but Davidson and everyone else throughout the organization gave this freak a second chance. So the entire organization is on the hook for this horrible decision.

This may put the GM on the hot seat?? But who knows in this day and age of excuses and the old boys club. As he’s been the GM since 2012/13???

Like…..you’d think you’d kinda TRY to clean up your act and NOT do anything cringe-worthy or so (frank)ed that you lose the trust of the room asap ….???
- Snots33_77

You HAVE to think that, not only the GM, but Davidson and everyone else throughout the organization gave this freak a second chance.
- Snots33_77

I really don't get what he was thinking... maybe he's so delusional he thought that players would see it as this cool and original way of using technology to get to know someone better?? wtf.

and I don't get what they were thinking in CLB either to hire him, it isn't like he had this amazing track record as a hockey coach that could help forgive his unconventional ways.

it's all kinds of dumb.

so where will he coach next?