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Originally Posted by GioforPM
I'm 100% not a Sutter apologist. His style had obviously worn thin and he made some very strange moves this season. But that "taking a s**t" business - that baffled me as far as how much outrage there was. It was so obviously tongue in cheek and not a reflection on Huberdeau at all.
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Agreed.
In the moment I was stunned about the reports of how much players—not just Huberdeau—were upset by this. In retrospect, I think it's a situation in which Sutter had not yet earned the benefit of making the kind of public joke he had attempted to land. It seems clear now that at the time Huberdeau and other players did not trust what Sutter was doing, so for him then to make a joke like that I think many of them interpreted as disrespectful.
It seemed like such a little thing from the outside, but looking back on it I think I can understand just how badly it poisoned the room, and spun things out of control.