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Originally Posted by Spurs
Sure that is 100% possible and if we had a quality roster and still had these results then I think it would be clear that was the case. But for last season the results matched the mediocre quality of the players. We finished right around where you would expect this team to finish fighting for one of the last play-off spots because the players just aren't that good.
Now it is possible that Sutter's methods have worn out their welcome with this team but it is hard to say that was the problem last year when the roster is so weak.
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WTF??? A weak roster?
Turned a Vezina candidate into pumpkin. Markstrom admitted his head was not in the right space and Sutter continued to ride him and destroy what confidence he had left.
Turned a 115 point top of the heap LW into a 60 point RW who struggled with the dump and chase game. One of the best east-west players in the game was sledgehammered into a north-south game and the results were obvious. Huberdeau has said all the right things about the coach but another season in the same situation is going to generate similar results.
Took a heart and soul player for the previous Stanley Cup winner and turned him into a divisive player who ended up quitting down the stretch. Kadri is a dick and hates to lose, a quality supposedly everyone wants on the team. But the game became so frustrating and so devoid of joy the guy mailed it down the stretch.
Took a 35 goal scorer and turned him into an other pumpkin, MIA most of the season. Unless Mangiapane did his shoulder in the pre-season and didn't say anything all year there is more than injury here. Every aspect of Mangiapane's game was #### and little was done to help him find his way.
Took one of the top centers in the game, a 40 goal scorer, and misused him all season long, never giving him opportunity to do what he does best and draining all of the joy from the game to where he doesn't want to come back. The loss of Lindholm is going to haunt this team as there is no one in the system that fill that gap.
Took the latest version of Mr. Calgary Flame, the guy a lot of this board wanted to be captain, and has made it to where he doesn't want to come back. Backlund's garbage day interview was the most difficult to hear because so many thought he would be a Flame for life, but instead he wants to move on to greener pastures.
And so on and so on. Won't touch on the defense that turned into a sieve or the young guys that showed promise only to sit in the pressbox. The only guys that performed well were interested in coming back were the guys who won a cup with him in Los Angeles - a DECADE ago.
This WAS a Darryl Sutter team and it performed like a Darryl Sutter team. The results were consistent because he never adjusted anything. This is all on Sutter. He took a team many writers were suggesting had the potential to be a Stanley Cup contender and turned them into wallflower at the NHL dance. This is on him. PERIOD.