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Originally Posted by All In Good Time
For example, it seemed that the Pelletier comment was a direct shot at an unfair question. the guys first game, full of special teams, only got about 7 minutes of ice. Tough to make a fair evaluation. Not Pelletiers fault but any opinion on his performance in a weird game like that wouldn't be fair to him.
Sure Sutter could have answered it that way, but as you said, he usually made smart ass comments to questions like that, immediately after a game especially.
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I was going to say exactly the same thing. First game and heavy on special teams. It wasn't a game that he could really be evaluated fairly on. Sutter was obviously expecting the question and prepared a snarky answer that came off in a bad way.
I don't think he meant to insult Pelletier, but it was also dumb to make the point the way he did. What he should have said was exactly what the situation was. Like it wasn't a great game to give him an opportunity to show what he can do due to how the game played out, but with what little time he had, he earned more opportunities. I think Sutter is a really good coach in a lot of important ways, but I wish he could have acted a little more normal when it came to things he would say to the media.