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Originally Posted by Oil Stain
Sutter has always been a shot volume coach.
Look at the results compared to then rest of the league for most 5v5 shot attempts in LA and CGY:
2012-5th
2013-7th(Lockout shortened)
2014-4th
2015-5th
2016-1st
2017-1st
2021-9th(covid shortened)
2022-2nd
2023-2nd
And Sutter has always done stuff like play grinders too high in the line up, and has limited star players icetime, and put out no skill guys on the PP, and ignored 3v3 and shootouts.
The Sutter philosophy is that no player is bigger than the team, everyone works hard, and everyone commits to defence. If he feels the higher skilled guys aren't working as hard as he wants then he sits them and pushes the grinders to the front. It's a button he pushes. You can find interviews with former players online about it.
Sutter's system and style of play is great. High correlation with winning if you can play the Sutter style. The downside is that its not fun, especially for the star players (The ones without high work rate anyways), and its probably pretty exhausting. I think its pretty tough to motivate the players to commit to that style for multiple years.
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I do think he deviated from that system in 2021/22. For whatever reason he let Gaudreau and Tkahcuk play their own game. It was more of a shot at previous coaches, who had separated the two. Sutter wanted to come in and show that he understood the team, and let those two play together and actually gave them all the best offensive opportunities. That change crashed and burned in the playoffs, and it was back to the old ways for 2022/23. Sucks to be Huberdeau.