Originally Posted by
schurchill39
I think Sutters personality is what wears on guys, not his coaching ability. He's the 4th most winningest active coach and 9th most all time. There have been numerous reports that he's a big fan of analytics but doesn't let them be the be all end all however they seem to marry up with his eye test. I think though that his jokes don't come across and jokes and he doesn't communicate to players when he thinks they fuck up, he just plays mind games with them. I'm not a Kadri fan but you can't relegate a guy like that to the third line and throttle back his ice time without much of a conversation on it (by all accounts). Thats like Torts scratching DeAngelo all of those games and not telling him why, just expecting him to figure it out.
I think if you got Sutter to do a better job at communicating, and stop using his players to fuck with the media (see: "I think he went to take a shit", and "What number was he?") then that relationship could be salvaged. Toffoli has high praise for him.
We have a good team, all of the pieces are there they just severely underperformed this year. Goaltending was trash, and our top two lines forgot they were top two.