My take on Sutter is - he is a good coach but he needs to adapt to trust younger players. You just need some youthful energy on every team. You can't be a middling team and just keep rolling out a bunch of late 20/30 year olds on the 4th line and hope that everything magically gets better. We lost Valimaki for nothing because Sutter wouldn't trust him to be a 6th d-man instead using no upside guys like McKay or Michael Stone or whoever. We'll lose Phillips for nothing this off-season because Sutter won't trust him to play even enough games to see if he has anything at the NHL level.
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