While the Red Wings were spoiling Mike Babcock’s regular-season Motown homecoming on the scoreboard with a 4-0 win over the Leafs, one of his former players appeared to be ripping into him via Twitter.

With the Wings pumping three goals past Maple Leafs goalie Jonathan Bernier within the first 21 minutes of Detroit’s home opener at Joe Louis Arena on Friday night, the Twitter account of ex-Wing Mike Commodore hammered Babcock with an obscenity-laced tweet.

Tweeted @commie22: “3-0 nothin Babs you posing arrogant piece of (bleep). Welcome back to the rink where everyone that met you hates you.”

We had to edit one of the words for the sake of decency. Suffice it to say the “bleep” replaced a curse word that rhymes with “fit.”

When certain people took issue with his comments, the person purporting to be Commodore responded by cursing them out on Twitter.

Later in the evening, a tweet on the account said: “Hello, This account has been hacked. Please disregard all tweets.”

That had some observers wondering if Commodore had, in fact, been set up.

But then came this, just one minute later, on the account timeline: “Wait a sec. It hasn’t been hacked. Mike Babcock is a piece of (bleep). Go Wings!! MC.”

All this is about as confusing as the Leafs’ so-called system Friday night — which, in the end, wasn’t really one.

Keep in mind that Commodore has publicly slagged Babcock in the past. There is history here.

Back in 2013, in an interview with KHL.HR, Commodore lashed out at Babcock, saying “I don’t trust him.”

Added Commodore at the time: “This coach screwed me over nine years ago. He buried me in the paper after I had a good camp in Anaheim. He buried me so I would look bad so he could then play his boy from juniors who was an undrafted rookie at camp that year ... Kurt Sauer.”

After Commodore ended up signing with the Wings, he became frustrated at Babcock consistently making him a healthy scratch. He played just 17 games for Detroit during the 2011-12 season.

Said Commodore to KHL.HR: “The only time I touched the ice was when the fourth line was on, and the faceoff was in the neutral zone. I was opening the doors for (Nicklas) Lidstrom, that’s all I was doing, being a cheerleader.”

On Friday night, the pathetic start by Babcock’s Maple Leafs gave Commodore even more ammunition to verbally shred his former coach.

And if you buy the notion that he had, in fact, not been hacked, then that’s exactly what he did.

SOUNDS FAMILIAR

Sure, you’re saying “Same old Maple Leafs.” And you may be right.

But know this: Babcock doesn’t like to be humiliated, especially when the effort wasn’t there. And on this night, it wasn’t.

He might not have come out and said it during his post-game news conference, but Babcock knows who the culprits are. And if they don’t clean up their acts, they’ll either be riding the pines, spending time in the press box or looking for new hockey homes.

How long will he put up with Joffrey Lupul taking lazy penalties such as the one that landed him in the box just 1:04 into the game? Eleven seconds later, Justin Abdelkader’s power-play goal put the visitors behind the eight ball for the rest of the evening.

After giving Bernier a vote of confidence coming out of training camp, how long will he put up with his netminder allowing goals on the first shot he faces in a game, something Bernier has done in both contests thus far?

How long is he going to put up with his team being flat-footed and going east-west instead of north-south, something that was painfully evident all night as the Red Wings skated circles around them? Exhibit A would be Nazem Kadri, a guy Babcock had praised throughout camp yet continues to screw around with the puck at the other team’s blue line far too many times.

On and on it goes.

The answer to all those queries: He won’t. He can’t.

These bad tendencies were happening before Babcock came to town.

And, on Friday night, the more things had changed behind the bench, the more things stayed the same on the ice.

A TALE OF TWO TEAMS

Only four players on the Red Wings roster on Friday night were not drafted by the Detroit organization: Mike Green, Brad Richards, Drew Miller and Luke Glendening. Defenceman Danny DeKeyser chose the Wings out of college.

Meanwhile, only four players on the Leafs roster Friday night were drafted by Toronto: James Reimer, Morgan Rielly, Nazem Kadri and Leo Komarov. Tyler Bozak chose them out of college.

Says a lot about the two organizations, doesn’t it?

LAST MINUTE OF PLAY

During the 2014 entry draft, the Leafs used the eight overall selection to take William Nylander. Seven picks later, the Red Wings plucked Dylan Larkin. For a Toronto organization that is a long way from being contenders, sending Nylander to the Marlies to develop was the right thing to do. At the same time, the speedy Larkin, who had a goal and assist in his first regular-season NHL game, certainly brings the “wow” factor. It will be interesting to see how things play out down the road.