There is two parts of this Sutter thing to me.
1. Getting players to give better efforts
2. Getting players to commit to the style he wants them to play.
While I believe he can do number one better than any recent coach we’ve had I’m not sure he has the horses to do number 2. The teams forwards are not suited to that style of game he’s asking them to play. I just don’t think they can forecheck hard enough to do what he wants them to do and some of the players would do better with a more free wheeling style. Something has to give and I don’t think we’re going to get good trade value out of players playing styles they’re not good at. If you sell for pennies on the dollar we might have a good working trap style team but we won’t have any offence and I’m not sure that works in today’s league.
We all said this is the season that we find out which players want to play and I think we will, but the caveat is it’s a combination of gaf as well as players suitability to playing like this. Aka you’re never going to turn Gaudreau into a solid checker and trying to do so will not help his trade value.
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