
Originally Posted by
mister_mcgoo
Prust was responding to MacLean's somewhat provocative comments that he made earlier on the subject. Honestly I don't know why MacLean said what he did, it wasn't horrible or anything but there was just no need of it. As a head coach you're the representative of the franchise, and the game, there's no need to be an ******* (unless you're Torterella)... in that situation you simply say:
"We felt it was a clean but hard open iced hit and were disappointed in the call in on the ice. It's terrible to see any player injured like that on a play and our thoughts and prayers are with Lars Eller, his family and his teammates"
that's the correct way to handle it, you stand by your guy but express concern for the player who was badly injured on the play, it diffuses the situation and shows you have class
Completely agree. This is perhaps the most surprising thing for me out of the whole thing. I expected the NHL to suspend Gryba even if I didn't agree. What I wasn't expecting was going from loving MacLean to thinking he's a little bit of a douche for the way he's handling this so far. He should have just said exactly what you said above.
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