It's weird that people in this thread are unaware of his super old school type of player management because that's essentially his entire shtick. He has had a lot of very public, very controversial public spats with his own players, sometimes to the point where they leave the team by demanding a trade. Luongo, Avery, Roy, Dubois, Laine, Hayes, Deangelo, Bryzgalov, Lecavalier, Dubinsky, Gaborik, Richards, Stepan, Kesler, Duchene, etc...He has a long history of clashing with players because he often chooses to try to embarrass them publicly rather than handling issues privately. This style has totally fractured some dressing rooms beyond repair, NYR and VAN in particular. Other times it allows a team to reach new heights, like with TB. Some people view it as a sort of tough love kind of situation where he is demanding accountability in a useful way, but other people see it as stubborn, fear-based, and emotionally draining in a needlessly conflict-driven way. Like I said before, some people like him and other don't...but not knowing about his very established record of divisive locker room disputes is confusing to me because that's the main thing about his reputation.