Don't know why when we read what these guys say and watch their hesitancy everything always comes back to Sutter. Dude is gone and that has removed a mere shade of skepticism in that room.
The takeaway to me in what Backlund says and Lindholm is perhaps thinking is that this room was disrupted last year and they didn't deal with it well from a players perspective. They are now wondering if they can get on as a team but they are don't seem very confident. Obviously Sutter had to go for there to be any chance, but he seems like he was a piece of a much larger problem.
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