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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Yes, the gap is large.
I have never said we shouldn't hold him accountable. However, there are a lot of posters that are calling him garbage and blaming the struggling offense on him.
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Hard not to when you look at the team on an individual to individual level and the only players that are major outliers compared to their career averages are Huberdeau and the goaltenders. He puts up even average numbers and we’re in the mix. I don’t actually know how you can call him anything but garbage this year or blame the struggling offence on anyone else when everyone else is contributing at (at very least, and in most cases a lot more) an acceptable level.
I agree that dropping Sutter is easier, no question. But he’s working for everyone else and I don’t think anyone would argue we’ve somehow been so lucky that we end up with bad coaches far more than good ones. If you swap the coach to appease Huberdeau and it makes every other aspect of the team worse, is that worth it? Because then we’re right back to “fire everyone,” no?