Regarding Huberdeau:
It's a bad systems fit without a doubt, saw it since the first few games. But last year inflates his stats and generally I feel like this leads to a a pretty big misconception about him. People keep saying he's a 115 point player and even though he did score that many, he really isn't. Last season was a total anomaly where he as an offensive winger played on the highest scoring team in 25 years with linemates that had career years. In reality he's been about a PPG+ player if we look at the four years prior to that from ages 24 to 28, which can be considered his prime years.
Now the Flames are getting him at the tail end of it and he's asked to change his game. I've noticed how some people talk like it's a good thing that he's now "elite" defensively and I can't help but roll my eyes. Sure, he's asked to focus on defense like Sutter demands but at what cost? Here you have a player that has 10 years of experience and success in the league playing a certain way and now you're trying to make him do things differently, maybe it works with some but I don't see any signs of it working with Huberdeau.
I don't think he has lost his skills and can go back to being a PPG player but just don't see it happening under Sutter. Which is enough to get him fired since the organization just committed eight years and 85 million to Huberdeau.
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