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Originally Posted by jayswin
I'm not totally convinced of this. Winning is everything in professional sports. If the players had all the same concerns and expressed them at the end of the year but Markstrom had a top 5 save percentage and we played two rounds of playoff hockey because of it, Sutter is still here, imo.
This was as much a performance failure firing as it was one of concern for the locker room culture and treatment of players.
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I think the mental abuse and talk about physical altercation would not have been overlooked.
Like Babcock Sutter never should have had a job again after LA.
You rarely hear of a team wanting to fire a coach after 2 cups in 3 years.