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Old 04-14-2023, 01:23 PM   #302
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Originally Posted by Draug View Post
To me, it looks like Sutter has worn out his welcome, and the whole team hates him. Maybe doesn't even respect him. He's gotta go, asap, or we are in for a decade of misery.

I don't think it's a fractured room, when I read between the lines. Weegar went out of his way to say "It's a great group of guys".

Lewis (a Sutter favorite for no good reason) so far is the only player I noticed saying he wants to be back.

Clear to me, the owners need to eat the $8m and fire Sutter immediately.
I kind of agree with what you're saying. If you look back in history of where Sutter has coached, his teams are totally tuned in for the first 2 years. After that, the players tune him out. You can't play 82-games of playoff style hockey and expect every player to buy in after playing 2 full years of hard hitting and grinding every game plus the playoffs. If any given team has good core players and wants to win now, Sutter is probably the coach to get for the first 2 years. After that, go with another coach and either plan to reload or plan for another run. Sutter hockey is his way or go F-off. I like to see if Sutter or his replacement can get an East-West style going in addition to the N-S game that we saw all of 2022-2023 season. I think some of the younger smaller players coming up will benefit from this as well.

Last edited by CSharp; 04-14-2023 at 01:27 PM.
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