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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
He wasn't the only problem.
But when articles by Strang and Lebrun are being written about Sutter and his abusive ways it says a lot.
Players need to be held accountable but they are being written off without a game played without that negative person guiding the bench.
Gullfoss Flames addiction and All in a good time are posters who refuse to look at the facts and seem like they are Sutter family members the way the come to defend him and it's embarrassing.
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That's funny, because I am glad Sutter is gone. I don't think he was the right guy to be coaching young players coming in and I have no doubt that he made some players miserable. I am just saying that it shouldn't be an excuse for poor performance. If it did cause players to give up and not put in their best efforts, then I think that says as much about the player as it does about the coach.
As for the previous discussion about Huberdeau being high maintenance, I posted stats in other threads and am honestly too lazy to get into it yet again. The gist of it is that any time Huberdeau was put on a top line, his production would drop. His last seasons in Florida, he was a 6th among forwards for 5-on-5 ice time (7th if you include Schwindt, but small sample size). That suggests to me that his match-ups had to be carefully managed in order for him to produce. I think this is probably a big reason when near the end of games when the other teams were trying to hold onto 1 goal leads, Sutter wouldn't put Huberdeau out there. You can say a lot of negative things about Sutter in terms of his personality, but he wasn't a dumb coach.