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Originally Posted by ComixZone
I don't know. It's painful because Sutter is a good coach, and Treliving is a good GM - but whatever the hell happened throughout the course of the last 12 months seemingly ruined their ability to work together. I still think the ideal situation would have been Flames announce a rebuild with Sutter and Treliving on board and committed to it.
We'd seen Sutter kind of openly dump on the roster before in press conferences and stuff about how they don't have talent. He also openly praised and called Monahan "that's a captain"...so what was it that broke things down? Was he against the Tkachuk trade? The Monahan trade? What did he want? I don't understand what the breaking point between Tree and Sutter would have been.
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Sutter started dumping on the roster and made the dumb comments on Gaudreau's 500'th game pretty well right after he arrived so he's always been that guy. He put that first line together at the end of the bubble season which clicked immediately then picking up right where they left off the following season and Markstrom was dialed in and when you have arguably the best 5on5 line in the NHL and a top 3 goaltender it's probably going to lead to a lot of success. The fact that the bottom six players still weren't thriving and players like Lucic were getting too much ice time was easy to overlook because the first line's production was covering those warts. Then the playoffs came and that Oilers series was the beginning of everything unravelling. The Oilers getting in Markstrom's head and him losing his confidence kind of overshadows just how bad Sutter was out coached by a rookie head coach in Woodcroft who borderline disrespected him during the handshake. It seems Markstrom wasn't the only person that lost their mojo as Sutter was off very early in the season after the team got off to one of their best starts in recent history at 5-1 getting all grumpy because they were winning but not winning his way and he changed the lines and stubbornly stuck with them as the Flames lost the next 7 games. From then on it seemed like he had this him against the world mentality clashing with the media, alienating players, and even the GM in the process. If he's back next season I sure hope his attitude is a lot better as this was by far his worst work ever as Flames head coach.