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Originally Posted by Royle9
This has to be one of the most bogus hot takes I've read in a while.
JT "0 effort" Miller who gave up on his team is NOT better than Huberdeau outside of this year. A year where its very evident that Sutter's style of play has hurt what makes Huberdeau good.
Lets not forget that Johnny, Lindholm and Tkachuk all played poorly under Sutter when he first came on board.
Schenn not even close to Kylington across the board, outside of the fact he's active in the NHL right now. I have a bad feeling Kylington isn't coming back soon at all so its a pointless take.
Boeser is obviously better than Lucic so you win that one.
I wouldn't do this trade as the Flames personally, its far to early to give up on Huberdeau, I think we need to build around him and put him in a position to succeed, a guy of his caliber doesn't forget how to play hockey over 1 summer... somethings just not right.
Flames should NOT be buyers, unless they win the next 5-6 games and even then I would add some younger guys with term like Duclair or Domi etc.
Otherwise they should likely be sellers and hope to re-tool through the draft.
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Come on man, "Sutter's style of play has hurt what makes Huberdeau good?" It's not like Darryl invented some magical style of play that no one else plays. He basically plays tight checking playoff style hockey all year round. So if Huberdeau can't succeed under Darryl's system, than this will likely just mirror how he plays in the playoffs as well.
After all, is it a surprise how Backlund's line can be equally effective both in the playoffs and in the regular season? it's because they excel at playoff style hockey. This ultimately should fall on Huberdeau to figure out, if he can only be effective playing on the opposite end of the spectrum, then he won't be any good to us in the playoffs or under Darryl. It's probably the same reason why Bill Zito didn't bother re-signing Huberdeau the second he could, as he probably hated his last playoff performance and had enough.
So Jonathan will have no choice but to evolve his game because Darryl just re-signed before the season started and the rest of the roster is built to check for their chances, not to run & gun.