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Originally Posted by Kasi
He brought in Milano as a try out. He had these players up in the preseason. Iirc Sutter had the lines pretty much made up and never gave them a fair shot with top 6-9 players. No surprise when players like Phillips and Milano “failed”.
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This is pretty much the truth of it. It’s really just the loyalty to the 4th line guys that kills me. He believes being “heavy” will matter at the end of the day…but there’s “functional heavy” and then what Lucic etc. bring…which is just that they’re big - and that size can’t overcome the reality that they’re bad.
Good heavy = an asset
Bad heavy = a liability
I’m hopeful that over time the right players will get rewarded, but the first 20 games seem to fly in the face of that.