Sep 18, 2023 at 02:40 PM ET
“I am very disappointed. We went through a process earlier this summer prior to hiring Mike Babcock as our head coach. But we got it wrong, and that’s on us. I can promise you we will learn from this moving forward,” Blue Jackets president of hockey operations John Davidson said Monday. Blue Jackets ownership said before Monday’s news conference that they do not expect to make any further changes to the team’s management.
The investigations into Babcock began on Sept. 12 after TNT Sports and Barstool Sports personality Paul Bissonnette claimed on the that he had been told that Babcock had asked for captain Boone Jenner’s phone during an off-season meeting to view his personal photos and then put the photos onto a larger screen in his office using Apple AirPlay.
"While meeting with our players and staff, I asked them to share, off their phones, family pictures as part of the process of getting to know them better," "There was absolutely nothing more to it than that. The way this was portrayed on the 'Spittin' Chiclets' podcast was a gross misrepresentation of those meetings and extremely offensive. ...
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