To add on to a few posts up, I'm also of the belief that you gotta have a coach that fits the identity of the team you want to ice. If Sutter is that coach for the organization presently - which I would assume is the case - then you have to have players that want to play for that coach. If there's a number of players on the roster that don't, then you get rid of the those players, and bring in those who do.
You can't be letting players dictate who should be the coach or not, unless they earn that privilege. That would be through being a generational player, or having multiple seasons of success (multiple playoff series victories through multiple years) that indicates that the roster/core is good, and the coaching change could make a positive impact. The Flames roster as is doesn't have a generational player that you can give that sort of leverage to, and the roster hasn't had the consistent results over the past several seasons to have that amount of clout.
So Sutter should at least be the coach for one more season, and the players that don't want to stick around, ship them out. There needs to be a culture change in the locker room, and that starts with the players.
My hope is that there is enough roster turnover, that the young players in the organization get spots by default on the roster, and can prove they are full time NHLs. Don't give Sutter the option of picking the vets, and not having patience with the youth.
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