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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
No offense but you are a big Sutter fan. I wouldn't expect you post anything different. It's been a bad season from him. The Flames had one of their best starts to a season in years at 5-1 and his response was to go all grumpy pants, call out Huberdeau and change all the lines and they go out and lose the next seven games. I can't remember any head coach getting in his own way and faceplanting that bad with poor decision making. I don't know if this team ever really got its footing back after that.
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The Sutter heat just doesn’t make sense to me. Comments saying that the game has passed him by and he’s no longer relevant in the NHL lacks merit in my opinion. Nobody was saying that last year when he coached the team to first in the division. His style seemed to work well enough that he won coach of the year.
He’s had his warts this year but let’s not pretend a different coach would have gotten better results with this group and especially the goaltending. When you lose the microscope and lens focuses in on every detail of the game. Playing the wrong goalie, playing the 4th line too much etc. Yet last year his decisions seemed to be just fine.
All coaches have their “guys” and it would be no different with anyone else. Fans would call out their decisions as well if we were losing. The coach can only do so much and the team is not very good. I mean do we really think Ward, Gulutzan or Peter’s would have different results?
At the end of the day the team is just flat out bad. Can’t use the coach as a scapegoat every time we fail. However it seems like a Flames thing to do unfortunately.