Coach Jon Cooper apologized for offending those who didn’t like his analogy of treating NHL goaltenders as kindly as if they were wearing “skirts.”
The bench boss of the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning said he is sorry for making a relatively innocuous remark when talking about a goal being called back in a playoff series against the Florida Panthers.
Multiple goals were disallowed due to goaltender interference, and Cooper commented on the goals after his team’s game. 6-1 loss As a result, they were eliminated from the playoffs.
“If anyone wants to talk about this game, they’re going to talk about the goal that was scored,” Cooper said. Began. “In this league where goals are precious, all we’ve done is create rules to help us score more goals. That’s what we’ve done.”
“Every year it seems like we’re tweaking something to be able to score more goals and that’s great. But there’s an obligation and the words of pulling incredibly bad goals off the board. That’s the standard for pulling out goals.”I didn’t find anything terrible on the board,” the coach explained.
“Are we not allowed to fight in front of the net anymore? The rules for boxing over there are like prison rules for the playoffs, but aren’t they prison rules for goalies? If that’s the case, don’t wear skirts. It might be better to let them. That means they have to fight something too.”
But this throwaway comment fell on deaf ears as empty claims about sexism soon followed.
One fan said: “Wearing a skirt? Wow, that’s some kind of misogyny. Coach, you better do better. It’s disgusting.” answered.
Hockey News writer Ian Kennedy called Cooper’s comments “open sexismThat “can’t be part of the head coach’s language.”
Just a few days later, Cooper Press conference He apologized for the comment and shockingly said he felt the negative reaction he received was even worse than when he lost in the playoffs.
As a “huge supporter” of women’s hockey, Cooper said, “Frankly, that was wrong. I have to go and explain myself to my boss.” [daughters]. ”
“Anyway, I sincerely apologize to everyone I offended. That was more painful for me than the actual series loss itself,” he added.
“I applaud John Cooper for opening by addressing this issue. He has always been great about it, so I was surprised by his comments. is the correct approach,” the betting podcaster wrote. rachel dory.
Former CFL professional football player troy westwoodadvised that men should strive to be better “men.”
“Dear Primitives, John Cooper is by all accounts a good man. He made a mistake. He has apologized. He is a better man, as we all should be. Strive to be a better man.”
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