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Originally Posted by GullFoss
I can't think of a single, top-tier NHL player outside of huby that hasn't had success under sutter. Did some players generate less offense than prior seasons due to a more defensive structure? Sure. But those players still generated a substantial amount of the offence their team generated.
Huby is driving zero offence. Forgot about creativity...he doesn't create chances off the rush. The doesn't dangle. He doesn't create chances off the cycle. Over 40-games, the eye test and his headline stats line up pretty closely.
What exactly has he done? Top tier guys under Sutter still produced - guys like Iginla, Johnny, Tkachuk, Kopitar, Richards, Carter, Williams, Brown, Lindholm, Mangiapane - and all found success.
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Mangiapane isn’t finding success this season.
All those other players you note weren’t having to play with a 14th forward, or getting shuffled to the 3rd line for extended periods.
Iginla found more success away from Darryl than with Darryl. Lindholm, Tkachuk and Gaudreau benefitted from playing with each other. You forget, Gaudreau was trash and not producing…mainly because he wasn’t being played with Monahan and Ritchie ffs until they shut Monahan down and eventually tried Tkachuk-Lindholm-Gaudreau and never looked back.
There’s also a reason why those very same LA King players you listed locked Darryl out of the locker room.