This team should have achieved much better results. It plays a dump the puck, slow perimeter game that produces shots and few goals. They play a game that very much looks like an outlier in today's NHL. Their game appears to generate some impressive advanced stats, but not many wins and little entertainment. Line management has been awful, game management is minimal, players have lost confidence, the team can't win games. There are multiple factors likely at play, but Sutter is the most central problem IMO and the factor most easily remedied.
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