[kermitology]

Trotz is out as he's the next GM of the Preds, were you thinking Bruce Boudreau?

I think Sutter is liked by players that he likes, but his gruff approach is only going to make things worse when things aren't going well. He seems to have turned the venom up to 11 this season and as a result he's toxic.

I seriously believe that his refusal to give credit to the team when they were actually playing well to start the season followed by his bizarre shake up after the first loss to the Oilers had the team asking questions. His comment about Huberdeau having to take a #### likely really rubbed a lot of the team the wrong way and it's been downhill from there. But there is a marked point where the team clearly decided they'd had enough of him was the Pelletier press conference.

Sutter is a demanding guy, but when things aren't going well his only response seems to be to whip harder and yell more. The stories of the lack of communication and the failure to name a captain (Backlund) have made it impossible for this team to listen to him continually call them ####.

Have the players played like ####? Yes, absolutely, but I think they're just getting crushed and they hate coming to play.