Pretty funny and interesting insight into how it was to deal with Mike Babcock. It's so strange that at the time of the team's success from 2007-2009, all of Detroits fans loved Babcock and thought he was a great coach, including me. Shocking to see how much of a POS he was and makes me wonder if the team would have won without him in 2008 and maybe even in the 07 and 09 runs.
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Yeah they won in spite of him not because of him
Commodore has talked about his hatred of Babcock for over 10 years. He’s a little delusional to think at the ass-end of his career that he’d be paired with Lidstrom in any capacity and possibly get 30 points. He couldn’t make the Blue Jackets’ squad despite how shitty they were at the time.
BUT. I can say I’ve seen so many Babcock stories that it’s very clear why we didn’t have a major BIG free agent signing from 2012 onwards during Babcock’s tenure except for Mike Green and permanently broken Stephen Weiss. Past that it was always guys ready for the end of their career like Alfie or Richards. They for sure saw the treatment of Modano with his 1500 games, Commodore, and behind the scenes Franzen, and it made us undesirable to play for.
I’ve seen stories even on this subreddit of people interacting with Babcock 10 years ago and saying he was a fucking dickhead to everyone he encountered.
The guy is absolutely nuts Commodore
It’s a bit of a stain on that era of the team. Unforgivable what he did to Franzen.
Never trust a guy who constantly refers to himself in the third person.
Babcock was our Cpt. Sobel
Babcock was a piece of shit but it’s crazy that Commodore is STILL on about it. Generational hater lol
He doesn’t care I’m sure, but fuck Mike Babcock, he is a fucking bastard.
>and maybe even in the 07 and 09 runs.
I’ve heard players say before that 2009 would have been theirs had Babcock not been coaching.
It really bums me out how Mike treated players, because he was a really amazing person the one interaction I’ve had with him.
I had a younger cousin going in for serious surgery when baba was still the coach. I knew babs did a lot of work with children’s hospitals. My cousins favorite player at the time was datsyuk who was a really hard autograph to get at the time. So i mailed a 16×20 photo print of the Wrigley winter classic game to babs through JLA, explained my cousins situation and how much a datsyuk auto would mean to him.
Within 2 weeks. Babs sent my photo back, signed by the whole team. Datsyuk, Zetterberg, Lidstrom,…every player. I couldn’t even begin to express how much that meant to my cousins and myself.
Talk about going above and beyond for a kid in need. Say what you will about Babcock the coach, when it came to helping kids, dude was top shelf.
Worst person you know makes a good point
Commodore needs to move on. Babcock isn’t even coaching in the league anymore and prob won’t ever be. Just comes off as embarrassing.
Still can’t understand why he signed with the wings knowing what he knew about Babcock.
Babcock was a POS but this never made any sense to me.
Edit : listened to this latest version of the story. I can’t remember clearly but has this story gotten embellished with calling holland and Babcock over the years. (The whole “are you trying to end my career, babs?”)
What a fucking dick
If Babs had such a hard on for him early on, why did he agree to come to Detroit?
Maybe Babs is a dick.. but I forgot Commodore was even with the Wings for that short while… he’s never been relevant
I’m still mad that Commodore didn’t select #64 for his jersey.