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Originally Posted by Burning Beard
Sutter is trying to groom Dube into a top line effort who plays hard every game. It's called development. They see Dube as a future leader of the team I bet and don't want him following in the current cores footsteps. So you sit him out and make him accountable. Other teams do this all the time with younger players but it's some kind of affront here.
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Yup. Players also respond best to different tactics and that's Sutter's job to determine. Sutter "admitting" to it being "his bad" for not giving Tkachuk enough ice time was his tactic to motivate Tkachuk. He sees him as a player who wants to lead and wants to be counted on so Sutter is saying out loud he will put start putting him in these situations. Tkachuk just needs to respond and answer the bell.