Mike Modano Reveals Who Was The Worst Coach To Ever Play For In The NHL

In many peoples' opinions former NHL Legend Mike Modano is possibly the greatest US born player in NHL history. If not definitely in the top five and in opinion the greatest Minnesota/Dallas Stars player of all-time.

Modano the 52 year-old put up 561 goals, and 813 assists in 1,499 career games. Modano should of had and would of had 1,500 hundred games played if not for one person.

That person is quite possibly the biggest prick to ever coach in the entire NHL.


Babcock has done some well documented garbage to his players including forcing Mitch Marner who was a rookie under Babcock when he was Head Coach for the Toronto Maple Leafs.


Marner was forced by Babcock to write a list of who he felt were the hardest workers and who didn't work nearly as hard only to show it off Infront of Marner's teammates.

As for Modano he was a guest on the Cam & Strick Podcast. During the interview they would discuss Babcock making Modano a healthy scratch when Babcock was coaching for the Detroit Redwings when Babcock knew how close Modano was to 1,500 career games played.

"So I mean it could have been a far bigger number, but it just happened to come down to one of those last couple games that I, you know, I got healthy scratched. So I would have missed, you know, I would have hit that 1,500 right on the nose.

Our last game in Chicago, but I got healthy scratched a couple games before against Minnesota, at home in Detroit. So ended up with that 1,499, just it was a bitter pill. It's still for this point, it would have been nice to finish at some type of high note after that season, I went through in Detroit so it's yeah, it's a tough one.

Some of the veteran guys, and they weren't they, like, we're gonna go up there and talk to them. We need him. Yeah, Drapes was, you know, it was really kind of last second.

No one really knew until you know, you know they got to the game and you know saw what was happening and then you know kind of word kind of spread to the locker room, "like oh you know he would have got 1,500 the next game", you know whatever. So, you know, Nick was, Nick was a little upset.

Kenny Holland didn't know about it, actually until he got to the game. Kenny Holland says it to this day, he probably would have stepped in and told Mike, "you know, we need to have him get to this this milestone."

So yeah, I mean the older guys were frustrated and I think some of them were already frustrated with Mike at the time way before that."

- Mike Modano

I think it's safe to say I don't think there's team in the entire NHL that wants to bring Babcock back behind the bench.