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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
My nightmare is that BT leaves and Sutter is handed the full reigns again.
Or that they install a puppet GM (e.g. Conroy) but it's Sutter actually with his hands on the wheel.
Ugh.
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It's pretty clear to me that Sutter isn't the problem but he's a problem. I no longer think he's an elite head coach at this stage of his career as this Flames team mimics his last years as Kings head coach where he just kept them competitive enough to finish just out of the playoffs while the locker room grew more tired of his dated methods. He's still a good coach but his insistence of rolling lines and stubbornness in keeping combinations together that haven't worked have hindered the team. There are simply better coaches today that are more in tune with today's NHL that aren't preoccupied with size and toughness and are more into line matching and problem solving when things aren't working rather than doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results.