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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
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.
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His ice time was cut by almost 3 minutes his first season here. It’s hard to make any impact when you aren’t playing especially for a top player. If you don’t make a play or mistake you want to get back out and make up for it. Hard to do when you are sitting on the bench. Not sure what happened with Sutter that year.
He’s back up to 18:30 now this year. You can see it on his face he’s having fun and enjoying it again. He’s also probably playing the most restrictive system right now. We try to play a low event game on both sides.