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Originally Posted by blankall

This is exactly it. People have just given up on the team after 1 year of disaster Sutter hockey. Last year we not only had a bizarrely out of date and inflexible coach, but many of the players actively gave up on Sutter.

The truth is we don't know what we actually have with Huberdeau and many posters aren't willing to give him any benefit of the doubt.

I think most of us expect a bounce back in production (could it really be any worse?). But what we didn't see even a glimpse of last season was some level of a player that could take over games, set the tone, come up with the big clutch play. A guy who is worthy of the richest contract in the team's history. Even in seasons where they struggle, very good players at least have a few stretches where they look great. Huberdeau was almost entirely irrelevant last season. Some of that is certainly on Sutter, but some of it is on Huberdeau as well. We can only hope there's a dominant beast of a player there somewhere, but he has to show it.