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Originally Posted by FanIn80
I never really thought the Pelletier thing was a big deal. I always took it as Sutter just saying, "why are you asking about a guy that only played 7 minutes and had one shot on goal." Kind of sarcastically saying... "who? what's his number again?" And then the "he's only 21, still has a long way to go" part was saying "relax, he's young, let him play some more before you start asking about him."
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In isolation it wasn't...but Sutter spent the better part of the year to that point making dumb or condescending comments to the media. The pressers were absolutely painful at that point, you couldn't get a straight answer out him. I think the media had enough Sutterisms at that moment, and honestly, rightfully so.
I've been as big a Sutter fan as anyone, but I thought all his negative tactics were dialed way too high last season. He completely deserved to get removed from the role. There's really no defending someone creating that negative of an environment, for literally everyone around the organization.
Great coach who for whatever reason seemed to go off the deep end last year.