Posted on 09/07/2016 4:09:59 AM PDT by airborne
Well yes they do. Most of the Euros and Canadians are pretty tribalistic. Americans tend to be less so. It’s an honor to named to a national team mostly because it means you’re recognized as one of the best.
This is probably the best version of the national anthem I have ever heard. It was at the NHL All-Star Game played in Chicago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvpxVE_kQXg
I live near Pittsburgh. I’m not talking about being “prickley” or being a hard*ss. Most coachs are like that. Tortorella has accused the NHL of fixing games (fined $30,000), invaded opposing locker rooms looking for a fight, etc. and apparently it’s been going on for a long time, see post 18.
They need to be banished to the Locker Room. Not just benched.
There used to be a clause allowing termination of any employee who brings shame to the company. Ask Jared Fogel...
Comparing Brooks with Torts is ridiculous. Brooks was a master tactician and motivator. Motivation and tactics can win out in single game situations such as the Miracle on Ice game, but to win in the grind of the Stanley Cup playoffs you need talent. Brooks simply never had a sufficiently talented team to win the Cup. Torts did. That certainly doesn’t make him a superior coach.
Besides Brooks behaved the way he did as a motivational tactic. That 1980 Olympic team was made up of a bunch of college players who were rivals. (Think of a football team made of players from Alabama and Auburn, Florida and Florida St., Michigan and Ohio St., etc.) Brooks’ challenge was to get a bunch of players who essentially hated each other’s guts to bond together and play as a team. He used the hard-ass personality to unite them by causing everyone to hate him instead of each other. Obviously it worked well in that case. He did back off from that type of coaching style in the NHL but obviously (like many of the players from that 1980 team) never really had the results in the NHL that were expected following the gold medal performance.
By all accounts, in contrast, Torts acts the way he does mainly because he’s just naturally a jerk. I do commend him (begrudgingly) for his stance in this instance, though.
Understood. In an age of “advanced hockey metrics,” he sounds like just the kind of colorful coach the NHL would want behind a bench somewhere.
We may have to dump football for hockey.
NBA rule 12A Section V Comments on Rule H
H. PLAYER/TEAM CONDUCT AND DRESS
(2) Players, coaches and trainers are to stand and line up in a dignified posture along the sidelines or on the foul line during the playing of the National Anthem.
He coached four different teams. Three of his jobs lasted no more than one season. His tenure with the New Jersey Devils in 1992-93 should have been the last NHL job he ever had. That team certainly had the talent to win. Jacques Lemaire took them to the Eastern Conference finals in 1994 and then won the Stanley Cup in 1995 -- and the roster didn't change all that much.
Just put “Standing for the National Anthem before the start of each game” in the contract.
Then, fire the guy’s a$$ when he doesn’t comply.
ANYTHING can go into a contract, and once a person signs it, it is binding. Even HOA’s and Timeshare Sellers can get away with making you agree what color your mailbox has to be. (I found out THAT the hard way! LOL!)
When one is being offered millions of dollars to play a game, one will sign anything.
And once it’s in the contract, “anything” rules.
Thank you for an awesome post!! It’s time to take Liberals to task for their insanity and for trying to inflict their politics on all of us. Let’s Roll!!!
Thank you for your kind affirmation! :-)
(((HUGS)))
IMHO the owner of the team has an easy out on firing this a- hole. When one makes statements that adversely affect the character of a team, one HARMS the VALUE of the the team. Therefore as the owner of a very valuable asset, YOU”RE FIRED !
Indeed.
Anyone who has ever worked in the executive field knows that many have to sign a “Non-Competition, Non-Disclosure, Non-Whatever” Contract before even being considered for employment. What seems to be “Unconstitutional” to us can be enforced because of the signature. You sign on the line, you must comply.
“Hurting the Brand” is most assuredly grounds for termination.
Yep. Probably the best.
I don’t think the NHL would ever have that problem. Not many gangsta thugs play hockey.
NHL players will stand for both anthems. US and Canada. And every other nation playing.
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