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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
How is this only on Sutter though? How about the player himself? All I use to read here for years was Gaudreau and Tkachuk couldn’t deliver the goods in the playoffs. So why does Jonathan get a pass? His story isn’t all that different from Tkachuk and Gaudreau. The skilled type who needs to learn how to play in the playoffs.
It’s not like Darryl has some kind of special unicorn system of hockey that no one has ever seen before. He basically deploys playoff style hockey all season long. Sure, it’s demanding and offense-first players tend to see a drop in their scoring, but at least you know they’ll be prepared for the grinding playoff style when the game changes.
Bill Zito probably saw this and realized that he needed to make big changes. So he decided to turf the coach and trade his franchise player coming off a record setting regular season.
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And it resulted in the same type of hockey for Florida with worse results.
Playing grinding hockey and being grinded on daily by your head coach wears thin quickly that's why Sutter teams just try to make the playoffs instead of trying to win the conference and finish as high as you can.