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Originally Posted by jayswin
100% this. You can sense it in Huberdeau. Every time his line dumps it in with a 40% chance of recovering it he probably drops his head and thinks to himself "so this is my life now".
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I think it’s more so that Huberdeau physically can’t, rather than it being Sutter’s call. It’s not his game, it’s the reason why he’s not the bump back option on the PP. He’s not like Gaudreau who could comfortably push the puck up the ice weaving through traffic while cutting through the middle of the ice east-west.
The sad reality is that the team lost their 2 best transition players in Tkachuk and Gaudreau and that ability wasn’t replaced. Kadri isn’t too bad, but he’s no Gaudreau or Tkachuk and that’s a big reason why the team can’t score on the rush at the same rate last season. This team doesn’t really score the fancy or easy goals, they have to work hard for their goals which is why winning games looks so difficult seemingly every game.
Last year the top line could torch the opposition for 4 goals and the team would win 5-1 with ease, now every game is like a nail bitter and we can’t score enough to make the game completely out of reach.