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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
It was a great win. Might have been their best win of the season. Nobody forced Darryl to make that comment and, ultimately, become the story.
And the comment about players always being the problem was intended more as a direct counter to the comments I've seen about Huberdeau being a bust, etc. More broadly, the team has been far more active about making coaching changes than swapping out coaches — although that's also a consequence of going bargain bin shopping for coaches in the past.
Darryl has a lot to work with and the expectations are sky high. The results have been thoroughly underwhelming, excellent win against TB notwithstanding. And I think, generally, people are wearing thin of his shtick.
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It’s not about there being a story around Sutter’s comments. He made them, he knows. It’s about media and fans using it as another excuse to talk endlessly about their own personal gripes with Sutter. Just the same regurgitated nonsense by the same posters (not referring to you here, you’re always respectful even if i disagree) whining about Sutter. And honestly, is it necessary? If Pelletier was so great and so deserving of being the story, why hasn’t anyone even tried to make him the story? Sutter makes a comment and the media forget the kid’s game entirely. Fans don’t actually care about Pelletier, or Phillips, because if we’re being honest they aren’t the most exciting prospects. They’re just a route they can take to blame the coach, again, for whatever. Those players aren’t the story because they don’t make themselves the story when it’s game time. That’s on them. If the players want to be the story, be it. Gaudreau was. Tkachuk was. Kylington was.
Sutter came in and turned things around for a lot of players and helped them achieve career years. Treliving switches the players around, and now it’s Sutter’s fault that the new ones aren’t doing good? The same coach who came in and helped guys get better? Bennett, Gaudreau, Monahan, Gudbranson… these were Sutter guys, and they keep getting traded or shown the door. Guys like Lindholm, Zadorov, Kylington, Tanev, Mangiapane… all guys who have reached new levels with Sutter, and there are more. But Huberdeau plays poorly and Pelletier and Phillips do nothing with their ice time and Sutter is actually bad for players?
Don’t buy it.