It's fairly obvious that Florida has a different system than the Flames, which allowed Huberdeau to be so effective offensively there. They aren't forcing players into two way or complete rolls the way the Flames historically have.
You can see this in the way Huberdeau has failed in Calgary, and former Flames have excelled in Florida. They're giving Tkachuk over 70% offensive zone starts in Florida. Whatever Florida is doing is obviously working for them, as they won the cup.
The question is why did the Flames bring in a guy like Huberdeau, who was playing in such a vastly different system into the Flames system, with Sutter forcing everyone to play a two way game. Seems like a total scouting/management failure. Did they not discuss this with Sutter ahead of time?
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