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Originally Posted by ricardodw
There are a lot of Flames that have done well under Sutter (close to career season or at least top 3 in their careers)
Toffoli
Backlund
Lindholm
Andersson
Hannifin
Dube
Coleman
These are guys that other than their age Tofolli, Backlund and Coleman would be easy to trade for value based on 2022-23.
The only guys on this list that are signed past next season are Coleman and Andersson
It would seem that having 7 players that are playing close to their potential does not suggest that there is a general failure of the coaching staff.
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except that's only 7 of the 18 skaters on any given night. Although I'd say you could easily include Lewis as he's had a strong year.
Less than half.
Also, probably the three most important players (due to salary) had terrible years: Markstrom, Huberdeau, Kadri. Of your list, I'd argue only Toffoli is notably better than what we should have expected from him.
I still take issue with "Sutter is THE problem". He's A problem, and a big one - but he's far from the only problem.