When you’re the head coach of a team is in the midst of a ten-game losing streak, you’re getting outscored like crazy during the season (49-19), and you just got blown off the ice; it probably won’t take much to push you to say something you’ll probably end up regretting.
Take Sudbury Wolves head coach Paul Fixter for instance. The circumstances listed above belong to him and his team, and after losing to the Sault Ste. Marie Greyounds by a modest score of 7-2, he had himself quite the meltdown during his post-game interviews with reporters:
A visibly upset Paul Fixter admitted how frustrated he was.
I don’t like losing, it sucks, said the Wolves head coach. “We shit the bed in the second period.”
Apparently in little mood to be questioned, Fixter said, “Fuck you,” when asked a second time about his team’s worth ethic. “We worked OK for 20 minutes tonight.”
Even though Coach Fixter was clearly overreacting to a routine journalistic question; the reporter was wrong for getting all in his feelings during a professional moment at work. Unless physically threatened, a professional journalist should never show emotion to such a degree. It comes off as weak and sensitive. The life of a beat reporter is littered with moments of ire and outright disrespect from frustrated coaches & players minutes, sometimes seconds removed from intense competition.
Regardless, Coach Fixter will probably find himself a tad lighter in the wallet here in the near future.
[h/t The Hockey News]