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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Darryl Sutter is a great coach.
His way works - they were in it to game 81 with everything that went wrong, and they allowed the second fewest shots against in the league.
That’s all Darryl.
He has a shelf life. He doesn’t have the horses, at any position.
It’s tough to blame a coach when, of the hundred best players under 26, his two are Hanifin and Andersson.
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Yeah, I'm no huge Sutter fan but this board seems to want there to be a single answer for what went wrong. It wasn't just Sutter making questionable decision at times and rubbing players the wrong way. It wasn't just goalies. It wasn't just a bad year for the top end players. All those things happened. And they still missed by a single game or so.
I'd bet Sutter didn't behave in much of a different way than the previous year. It's just harder to take when you lose. Same thing happened with Hartley though from what I gather he was far more toxic, and also just not as good a coach.