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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
Sutter is an old school demanding, hard-nosed coach. When this process generates wins, no one cares about the things he says in the media or it's somehow labeled as genius rather than concern. When they don't win, everything in the narrative comes apart - the players who are grinding harder than for other coaches on other teams start to question the method to the madness and it flows out into the press.
To me it's pretty simple: Kadri + Huberdeau < Gaudreau + Tkachuk plus netminding struggles for Markstrom and the results this year's results make perfect sense but unsatisfying.
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Some good points and another reason is the loss of both gudbranson and OK. Weegar is in but with those two out it hurts the two bottom pairings. Big Z and Gudbranson were better than with stone in there and OK with Tanev were better than Tanev with Weegar.Weegar has been working on chemistry with a new team and then being moved around. Last year there were 3 solid pairings and no holes plus Markstom was better.