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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
You fail to integrate long tenured players like Backlund and Lindholm into you argument. It's cherry picking to say it was just Huberdeau and Kadri that were the problems here. Clearly other players in the locker room felt exactly the same as they did. For Murray to eat that contract, the argument to fire Sutter likely went much further than those two players. Darry's your guy and that's fine but few people here are buying what you are selling.
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Yup. I like Darryl and posted plenty of times about not wanting him gone. I still don't think he was *the* problem. But when guys who have been through a couple coaches and especially a guy like Backlund who has given it all to this franchise raises an issue big enough that they're willing to move on if it's not solved? You listen, plain and simple.
I also think it's a complete rewrite to suggest that Huberdeau didn't want to adjust his game. He did, completely, and his individual stats suffered immensely for it because it's not the type of game he's successful at. He still did it. Saying he couldn't or didn't want to play the system is a lie, he could and he did, and it didn't work. Kadri... hard to say, he was a mess.
This developing conspiracy theory about Sutter being used as a scapegoat or this all secretly coming from the minds of two new players is just bizarre to me. There's no reason not to believe Maloney is being honest and plenty of smoke that suggests this was more than two players. If it was just two players, nobody would go through the effort of making up rumours about it being multiple players, coaches, training staff, etc. Let's not forget to use our heads a little bit here.