I actually think a coach like Sutter would be perfect for Laine.
Sutter at the core is a players coach. He has an excellent beat for the room, and time and time again we hear about players talking about how he recognizes their struggles and works personally with them. He adapts to the players he's coaching.
He is also demanding and rigid, as we have seen. This is not unlike torterella, but the above is very different, and the next part is the key difference:
Sutter will absolutely go to bat for players in the media.
To me, Laine has had both extremes: he had Paul Maurice in Winnipeg, a well known "players coach". He actually performed wonderfully under Maurice for stretches, and IMO it's because he felt supported to learn and grow while taking risks. Over time the media started to rip at him to the point where he was constantly underperforming and just getting lambasted all the time for it. Torterella pretty much just threw him to the wolves right away, offering no support and seemingly quitting on the team even this year. Laine actually started out strong in Columbus: First 10 games there he had 6g, 4a, 10 points. Then the skid started and there was no one there to shield him or help pull him up.
Sutter offers both of these things to him, and IMO could potentially mold Laine into a real player. Laine already would possess the best goal scoring talent the franchise has seen since Iginla.
In short, if columbus will trade us Laine for Monahan we should take it and trust in Sutter rather than in some of these odd boogeyman sutter creations some of you have in your head.
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