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Originally Posted by Bandwagon Surfer
I am sorry if this came off as me saying you are supposed to be anything. I was talking at a demographics level, not a personal level. Demographics can only say things about large groups, they do not mean anything when it comes to an individual person. In the same way an individual does not say anything about a group.
I got into in more in a previous post, but cultural shifts over time, and how human brains change as they age, people who are older are more likely to take a do as I say approach to management. That does not mean that you or the people you have interacted with are like that. Only that if you took random samples of populations you would be more likely to older people would be more likely to be a "do as I say" person.
Experience and knowledge do not mean nothing, but they do not mean as much as people think. The average person is at their peak intelligence in their mid 20s, but experience lets them improve their job performance until their 40s. Experience can only compensate so much as our brains degrade with age. At a certain point experience becomes out of date, and relying on it instead of learning something new becomes a detriment.
To get back to the topic of Sutter, I see him as someone who crossed that threshold of overly relying on out of date experience and knowledge, while undervaluing learning new things and changing. He has had am amazing career, and was a great coach. He just aged out and can no longer adapt to what works better now.
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Didn’t they win their division last year? He must have aged a lot in the few months between the seasons.
Or maybe he lost his two best players and his goalie forgot how to stop pucks.