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Originally Posted by sonq
While I agree with you on most of what youre saying, I think its pretty unfair to compare Huby to those guys who have been playing together for a long time. Huberdeau has been playing with his mates for 28 games in a team where he was traded to. I think his confidence really rattled after Zito completely blindsiding him and now our fans are calling him the worst contract ever in history because he is not replicating his last season
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Huberdeau came into a situation where fans were very eager to cheer for him and had loads of positive enthusiasm for him as a Flame. Many were in favour of even making him team captain to start the season. Fans were also pretty happy about his contract when he signed it. We're just getting unhappy now because performance is so far off of expectations, and the stars we lost to other teams are making it pretty hard to ignore that it's possible to walk onto a new team and have immediate impact without needing a half-season warmup.
He had the red carpet rolled out to him by the organization and the fans. He had plenty of support to pump his confidence up. He just hasn't turned up as expected yet. Everyone is still hoping that he will. Nobody is cheering for him to bomb.