My tinfoil hat theory is that Sutter wanted Tre gone… he didn’t like the Huberdeau add or any roster decision, so he got an extension signed then completely sabotaged the season so Tre wouldn’t want to come back… He never gave Tre’s younger players many games, kept saying the team built wasn’t good enough, kept rolling out vets and if they did well he could say “see look these guys have experience and know what to do.” If they sucked he could say “this is all I have to work with…the team isn’t good enough.”
Kept trying to put square pegs in round holes on purpose… Next season will be interesting… if they hire a puppet GM or Sutter himself, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a different coaching method and that might come with better results. That’s my theory anyways… too many bad coaching decisions from a guy that knows what he’s doing and a master at mind games to be a coincidence.
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