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It’s the holiday season. In theory, the happiness index needle is on the right side. But that’s not the case every day of the year, is it? And in the wonderful world of sports, that sometimes translates into epic coach wraths. Here are some real hockey ones, embellished with various scenes from the cinema.

Frederick Duchesneau
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10. Coach Carter and Timo Cruz

the coach let himself be insulted once, then two and three. The expelled young rebel, not wanting to lose face in front of his disciples, then makes the wrong choice. He will leave the gym in shame, after kissing the wall. “I am not a teacher. I am the new one coach basketball, ”the coach (Samuel L. Jackson) tells him in his own way.

9. Jacques Demers and Herb Brooks

The obvious great kindness of Jacques Demers did not prevent him from being hot behind a bench. In 1988, while in charge of the Detroit Red Wings, he even went out of his way to get to the late Herb Brooks, driver of the Minnesota North Stars. Brooks had called Demers a pint of milk delivery boy. (In fact, it was more in the delivery of soft drinks that Jacques Demers had worked, but whatever, the insult of Brooks hit the mark.) Fortunately, the staff and the Wings players retained their coach! Demers was literally beside himself.

8. Mickey Goldmill and Rocky Balboa

Mickey had his own way of stimulating his foal. Old school, you might say. With harsh words and hoarse shrugs. In the first three opus, the relationship between the two men, although affectionate, is nonetheless stormy. “Talent wasted. “” Weak legs. He also treats his boxer as a new bourgeois – with good reason – before the beating he takes against Clubber Lang (Mr. T). Or, in the excerpt below: “Go away, go back to the docks where you belong.” »A very gentle approach!

7. Mario Tremblay and Donald Brashear

November 9, 1996. Things are not going very well for the Montreal Canadiens who have won only one of their last six games. The morning training is tense and an altercation – captured by RDS – breaks out between coach Mario Tremblay and Donald Brashear. Difficult to know precisely what was said during the exchange. In this “family” version, we hear more “beeps” than words. In the evening, the CH faced the Avalanche of Patrick Roy, traded a year earlier. Which was certainly not foreign to the level of tension of the coach… Unsurprisingly, Montreal will lose the match.

6. Pierre Pagé and Mats Sundin

A classic. Undoubtedly as painful for fans of the Nordiques as it is enjoyable for those of the Canadian. Kirk Muller had just made 4-2 Montreal against Quebec at the end of the second period of the sixth game, at the Forum. First round, 1993. Pierre Pagé then proceeds to a change of goalkeeper, replacing Ron Hextall with Stéphane Fiset. And, during the substitution, he goes crazy behind the bench, screaming notoriously in Mats Sundin’s ears. Not sure that the Swede has recovered all his hearing to this day. Pagé will admit, years later, to regret this scene.

5. Drill Sergeant Hartman

” Sir Yes Sir. We are cheating here. We’re getting out of sport. And, warning, this is anything but politically correct. Children may have heard worse, but still. Although he has not made a large number of films, there is no lack of mythical scenes in the works of Stanley Kubrick. Of which this one, taken from Full Metal Jacket, in which Drill Sergeant Hartman falls headlong into some of his flock. The actor, Lee Ermey, was a former Marine instructor. Filming was delayed for four months after he was involved in a car accident.

4. Jim Schoenfeld and Don Koharski

After a 6-1 loss by his New Jersey Devils in Game 3 of the semifinal against the Boston Bruins in 1988, Jim Schoenfeld took a hard hit on official Don Koharski, marching to the cloakrooms. Shouting to him in particular “Have another donut!” And calling him “Fat pig.” Uplifting. All the referees boycotted the next game, which led to the infamous episode of New Jersey minor officials wearing yellow shirts. There is sometimes a justice: the Devils escaped the series in the last game.

3. Reggie Dunlop and the referee

The three Hanson brothers had just been kicked out in the midst of a general melee. “They were defending themselves! Are you on a dance floor? », Will ask the player-trainer Dunlop (Paul Newman) to the referee. All the coronations of the delicious Quebecois translation have been evacuated here. We are obviously talking about the legendary Slap Shot, translated by Slap shot in Quebec … and The castagne in France. Let’s move on. We could have targeted many more milk from Reg who, in particular, does not miss an opportunity to soap the good Ned, his only real hockey player.

2. Jim Playfair and the referee

This is out of the ordinary. We are used to throwing objects: pucks, sticks, water bottles. Clipboard, even. (When will the launch of an iPad, by the way?) But knowingly destroying a piece of her wardrobe, you had to think about it (or not). This is precisely what Jim Playfair did in 2010, taking the expression “tear your shirt off” to another level. Obviously, the coach of the Abbotsford Heat in the AHL didn’t like the referee’s explanation. And his reaction seems to have frankly entertained, to his right, number 29, Shawn Weller!

1. Pierre Lambert and Jacques Mercier

“Like that, there are those who find that a dog’s child has fallen. A jealous person. A lot of late. We can stop here. The tirade of two minutes and a few by Jacques Mercier in the locker room of the National to the place of a sheepish Pierre Lambert – on the verge of tears – is part of the anthology scenes of Quebec television. Especially for fans of Lance and count, which were very numerous. There is Scotty Bowman and Michel Bergeron in the character of Yvan Ponton, as we know. But in this case, reality cannot match fiction.