The 2018 Ottawa Senators are still making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Currently sitting at 6-6-3 with the NHL's 29th-ranked penalty kill unit, an Uber driver shared a video of Senator players mocking coaches and the team while in the driver's car. The players apologized and Guy Boucher made a statement, but Flyers winger Jakub Voracek said that the banter isn't as surprising as people are making it out to be.
"I guarantee that every single person who has a boss, every sports team in the world can guarantee it happens everywhere," Voracek said Wednesday, via NBC Sports Philadelphia. "And I can guarantee that the coaches behind the door talk about the players. It happens everywhere all the time. You go out for a beer, you go out for dinner, it happens. The coaches vent about the players when they go out to dinner about who f------ sucks, who's playing bad, who's playing better. It happens everywhere. So now it comes out, they're making a big deal. I don't think they said anything bad, just that their [penalty kill] and their [power play] sucks."
Voracek went on to turn the blame sights to another party: The driver who posted the video.
"Who gives a s--- (about the driver's intentions)? He's a f------ idiot. Do your job," Voracek said. "You're an Uber driver, drive cars. Don't try to sell copies to make some money. Get the f--- out of here. You know what I mean, he's a loser."
Uber is weird gray area, since you're driving in someone's personal car, but there's still an unspoken agreement of privacy. It was a bizarre decision to post the video to be sure, one that Voracek clearly takes issue with. It's safe to say that the driver ended up with a one-star review after the video leaked.
