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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
He’s really not doing anything a lot different. He’s just more confident and doesn’t feel the burden on having to score 100 points and he’s getting ice time and killing penalties which he mentioned as huge reasons he had the 115 point season.
He got a lot of unfair hate because a bunch of people hero Sutter got fired and they blamed him. Not just hate but it was personal especially by the person who started this thread.
He did everything he could do to fit in and play our way but effort and attitude has never been an issue with him.
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There was a lot of unnecessary personal hate towards Huberdeau for sure.
He somehow took the blame for Gaudreau and Tkachuk leaving and the locker room issues that followed (which was not his fault at all) and then the entirety of the blame for the 22-23 Flames struggles that ended with Sutter being fired and he was blamed for that too.
It's awesome to see him getting rewarded now because IMO I think he's tried hard most of his time as a Flame and has worked hard defensively, but has now figured out how to rebuild his game to figure out how to also produce offensively in the confines of a more responsible system.