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Originally Posted by Locke
The whole Sutter thing is wild to me. It all seems so out of character and makes so little sense.
I've said it before, but either Sutter is experiencing early onset dementia or his actions were those of a man trying to get fired.
Because otherwise the pieces as we know them just dont seem to fit.
How can Sutter coach the team to a great season, win the Jack Adams, everyone loves them and then fast-forward to this absolute s###-Show?
The piece of those tweets that I have a hard time believing is that Lindholm has been here all these years, everything by all appearances has been great and then this one crazy, crappy year absolutely demolishes all Goodwill.
This organization is a goddamned mess and they'd better figure it out.
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I don't think it's that complicated. Sutter knows what it takes to win a cup and trains his teams a certain way to do that. Those that have won a cup understand what he is trying to do and that's why he has allies in the room that love him (Lucic, Lewis...etc.). If Regehr had been on this team...he would have been on team Sutter also.
Everything he does: player ice time usage, playing style, intensity training, all of it builds up so that the team performs in the playoffs.
Then you bring in the new highest paid player by nearly double who hasn't won a damn thing, wants to get the easy points like he did in Florida (because all he knows is how to score the easy season points) and Sutter starts turning up the pressure because that is all he knows. Members of the team continue to push back because they think he oversteered their little early season win streak, because Sutter knows the only way to get out of the division is through Edmonton (didn't turn out that way but I understand the thinking). As the losses pile up , the room continues to split between those that believe in the vision, knowing what it takes and those that are always the victim.
Fast forward 8 months...and you start dumping those on the team that knew what it takes in favor of making the highest paid forward and his 2nd in command happy collecting regular season points.
The only decision now is whether you are going to cap hamstring the Coronato/Peltier/Honzek/Zary/new picks from this year generation in 5-8 years with another boat anchor of mediocrity so that in 10-15 years the team can be good. Or if you start unwinding it now and get good again in 5-7 years.
Would love to be proved wrong...but it's a pretty bleak outlook.