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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Most of this is made up nonsense that goes against actual results and the eye test, so why should anyone take this seriously?
You “could” make a list of players who have taken steps backwards under Sutter, but you didn’t, probably because most of those players also experienced their best season under Sutter.
He refuses to play young players, meanwhile Ruzicka is a full timer and Pelletier is on the second line.
He has terrible deployment of the forward lines, but the majority of the top 9 are having career years offensively.
Your list of “obvious” is primarily subjective noise, and it’s hard to buy the armchair psychological assessment you’re selling.
Huberdeau is not producing. That’s his fault. It’s a harder truth to accept because dealing with that problem is a hell of a lot harder than dealing with a bad coach, but it is what it is. I’m confident he’ll come out of it, but he’s in it because of Huberdeau and no one else, and no amount of blaming Sutter for not playing Pelletier enough is going to turn Huberdeau into a producer.
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Taken a step back; Mangiapane, Huberdeau, Weager, Markstrom, thought it was rather obvious but there's your list...
As for "subjective noise"; 25th in the league in power play, 18th in goals for, 10th most pim in the league (top 5 in west conference). Middle of the pack in hits, PK%. All mediocre at best, this falls on the coaching staff, not Huberdeau. Winning solves all, but the current mix of players, staff and management is producing boring, .500 hockey.
And Ruzicka on the 4th line/ healthy scratched 80% of the season counts as playing young players? We will have to wait and see what happens with Pellettier. I know it is out of the question but I just wonder what a Joel Queneville could do with this team.