Kinda feels like the team has tuned Sutter out.
My personal theory for why we see Lewis, Lucic etc playing so high in the line up is because of some infighting between new comers and Sutter so he rewards/trusts "his" guys. I cant really think of any other reason why.
And personally even though its hard to fault him I feel like it all falls on Treliving. He did best as he could with the Tkachuk/Gaudreau situation. But the expedited re-signing of the 2 new pieces and extending Sutter seems to have us in a catch-22. We have 3 new players we locked up for 6-8 years that dont seem to excel under our coach or get the ice time. Do you let the coach go and waste 3 years of newly extended money? Does ownership even sign off on that?
The new players are all unmovable at the moment. So it cant be them. But anyone who doesnt think theres some serious turmoil going on within this team has their head in the sand. Were backed into a corner here and I dont know the way out but feels like Treliving has over played his had trying to make us on last years level right away and it could cost him his job IMO.
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