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Babcock Lets His Hair Down
by Paul on 08/30/08 at 07:28 PM ET
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from Stu Cowan of the Montreal Gazette via the National Post,
It has been 15 long years since the Montreal Canadiens last won the Stanley Cup, but there is a small group of Montrealers who can boast that they drank from Lord Stanley’s mug this summer.
John Harris, Dr. Jay McMullan, Mike Nelson and Earl Zukerman were among the invited guests when Detroit Red Wings coach Mike Babcock had his opportunity to spend 48 hours with the Cup last month in his home province of Saskatchewan....
Zukerman says that Babcock, despite his fame, has remained the same fun-loving guy he was during his university days.
“He’s a little more self-conscious maybe when people are around,” Zukerman said. “But when he’s with his old gang, he hasn’t changed a bit. It’s just like it was 25 years ago.
“I thought he might send someone to pick me up at the airport, but he showed up himself in shorts, just like any ordinary Joe. The same old ‘Babs’.”
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Now that is a great article. Not the kind of thing we’re used to in Detroit.
I agree completely, monkey. Here’s the seminal quote for me…
I thought he might send someone to pick me up at the airport, but he showed up himself in shorts, just like any ordinary Joe. The same old ‘Babs’.
Nothing I’ve read describes Babs better than that. That really is the intangible that he brings to the Wings...a dose of reality. There are no superstars in Detroit. Everyone is just a bunch of “Joe’s” working their butts off for a single cause.
As much as we praise Babs, I think the real acolades go to Ken Holland for recognizing that Babcock was the perfect coach for the Red Wings.
Posted by OlderThanChelios from Grand Rapids on 08/30/08 at 10:50 PM ET
he showed up himself in shorts, just like any ordinary Joe. The same old ‘Babs’.
Uh..yeah, because if he’d been wearing pants instead of shorts, he would have been a total hot shot...hahaha
Posted by NHLJeff from Boston, MA on 08/31/08 at 12:51 AM ET
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Now that is a great article. Not the kind of thing we’re used to in Detroit. Thank God for the internet.
Posted by monkey from Waiting for the lambs to stop screaming on 08/30/08 at 08:34 PM ET