Toronto Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock talks before playing his former team, the Detroit Red Wings, on Oct. 18, 2017.
It’s easy to be appalled now, after more than a decade has passed, and the coach is long gone. But what would you have thought back in July 2008?
A few weeks after the Detroit Red Wings had won the Stanley Cup, as you bathed in that euphoria, as you reveled in the identity of Hockeytown?
What would you have thought had you heard how Mike Babcock treated his players?