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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Under Sutter, the Sharks started out as a crappy team that gradually got better and better in the regular season. Marceau seemed to develop OK under him. Unfortunately Sutter got canned before they made the great Thornton trade, and one wonders how they would have done under him after that, instead of Wilson and McLellan.
In LA Sutter had quite a few vets but he also developed Doughty, Voynov, Toffoli, Muzzin, Pearson. Kopitar was only 24 when Sutter was hired.
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Feel like future Hall of Famers like Kopitar and Doughty would’ve been great players regardless of who coached them and what system they played.
For the record, I don’t think Darryl hates young players or is against developing them, especially if those young players are good right out the gate. But I think there’s some non negotiables in Darryl’s coaching method such as pace of play, defensive coverage and mistakes and these just happen to be a few things young players tend to struggle with at the NHL level.
.... And unfortunately for the Flames, a lot of our young kids have been guilty of a lot of these things since Darryl came aboard and that’s probably why they’ve spent time stapled to the bench and up in the press box. I certainly don’t blame Darryl either, his job is to win games and in quite a few must win games, it’s been a lot of the younger guys who’ve flubbed passes or made costly errors that have cost the team dearly. I think you can even see it in Juuso Valimaki who has broken his stick and looked up to the skies when his turnovers end up in the back of his net, as if he’s deathly afraid of eating popcorn up in the rafters the next game.