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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
This is such a frustrating thing to hear from Sutter. It is his job as the coach to come up with a game plan to counter Nathan MacKinnon or any other superstar player. It is his job to make in game adjustments to solve the other team. We see none of this from Sutter. He's always been a work-harder-not-smarter type of coach and rolls the same lines out there to play the exact same boring as #### style the team is expecting and knows how to defend.
This is a different game now and you need to take what the other team is giving you, and every team gives you something different. It's why the Avalanche are Stanley Cup champions, they adapted best to each team they were playing. It is also why the Flames got absolutely destroyed by two players in the playoffs last spring. Sutter had no answers for them and they had a field day against the Mickey Mouse systems that Sutter had the Flames play. The only thing that came out of that humiliating loss was a broken Jacob Markstrom. That was on Sutter and his refusal to adjust. The game has passed him by. You can't win in this league by trying to knock your square peg into a round hole with a sledgehammer. It just doesn't work anymore.
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Why pray tell would you assume what Sutter says in a press conference would ever come close to what his actual game plan is or what he says behind closed doors with his staff and his roster?