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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
People keep blaming Sutter but (as I posted in another thread) there are half a dozen or more guys on pace to have career years offensively or very close to it.
When Toffoli, Kadri, Lindholm, Coleman, Dube, Backlund, Zadorov, Andersson and others are on pace for their best or second best season offensively this year, and guys like Gaudreau and Tkachuk scored over 100 points last season, it becomes entirely evident that people who blame Sutter’s coaching for a lack of offence are doing so because they want to, not because the evidence points that direction.
Whatever the problem is, it’s Huberdeau’s to figure out. Why is he so special that he gets excused for not producing when everybody else has managed to produce well under Sutter?
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I wouldn't include Kadri or Lindholm on that list, or Backlund either. Yes for Andersson and probably Toffoli; you can make a case for Dube and/or Coleman but I wouldn't say they've had any sort of breakthrough year this year. Zadorov has 13 points, which doesn't move the needle at all.
To be clear, I don't think Sutter's purely to blame and I'm confident he'll eventually figure out how to get Huby going.