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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Millionaire Athletes on guarunteed contracts?
Did Sutter intimidate the Kings when they mutinied on him?
You're confusing effectiveness with power.
Glen Gulutzan, Bill Peters, and Geoff Ward all had power.
Their choice to not exercise that power on time to the betterment of the team, is their failing as coaches. Peters not benching James Neal until game 6, when he was #### ALL SEASON? That was not on the core of this team. That was on Bill Peters.
Who said anything about hating those things?
I'm sure they loved his direction and practices because it was easy.
But loving it, and finding it effective, are two different things.
The team was not very good in the bubble. They barely beat a 9th seed and got their ass handed to them by Dallas.
The team was not very good prior to the bubble under Ward.
These are facts.
When you have all 18+ skaters playing "listless" hockey, it's got nothing to do with the five or six players who represent the "core".
Blaming the players is the easy way out, because it's easy to call them lazy and heartless and prisoners running the asylum.
It's easy to do that.
But they want to win too, and they sure as #### didn't WANT to put out those listless performances.
The fear of Darryl Sutter did not make them suddenly WANT to start playing hard.
These are millionaire athletes with guaranteed contracts. They don't fear coaches, benchings, trades. And in the year 2021, they can get a coach fired with a basic tweet if it comes down to it.
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You're certainly welcome to your opinion, .... I just don't agree with it.
All coaches have shelf lives, but Sutter clearly would demand more respect and "fear" than any other guy that has come in in the last five years.
They'll tune him out eventually, but they haven't yet, they won't this year, and I'm guessing they won't next year.
But really what are we arguing here? We both like the move to hire Sutter. We both think Sutter is the better coach.
Just comes down the players. You're happy to assume the entire problem was Ward with zero accountability to the players, and I'm not.
Seeing that typed out makes the likelihood between the two pretty obvious doesn't it?