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Huberdeau is averaging less ice time per game this season compared to his rookie season. That’s… weird



Huberdeau is averaging less ice time per game this season compared to his rookie season. That’s… weird

by Highwood1983

22 Comments

  1. backchecklund

    Rolling all the 4 lines equally baby 🔥🔥🔥

  2. Nice-End-4742

    makes sense. why would we play the guy that got 115 points last year when we can play lucic

  3. ChodedMale

    Sutter gets a fucked up, hairy, spotted Boner when he thinks about playing the 4th line in crunch time over any of the first three lines

  4. keeper3434

    Sutter must be a liberal. Equal time for everyone.

  5. I think the biggest issue is that Tkachuk and Johnny were grandfathered into sutters system. So they had way more leeway to be creative and do their thing since they’d been doing it before he got there. and it was what kept the flames competitive to have at least one line not just checking and getting shitty pucks on net. A luxury that huby does not have.

  6. CaptinDerpI

    Meanwhile, Lucic gets played half the game

  7. Interesting, his shooting% doesn’t actually seem to have taken much of a hit. He needs to start shooting more.

  8. bannerwarrior

    Lucic has 16:30 if anyone is wondering

  9. metisburns

    because sutter doesn’t let him play the minutes he gets paid to.coach is terrible at utilizing his start player’s correctly.but he plays Lucic who is slow and old regular minutes.

  10. MonkeySailor

    It’s not weird, it’s incredibly stupid and tantamount to self sabotage.

    Sutter’s either so far down the rabbit hole he actually think this wholly idiotic “strategy” will payoff or he’s intentionally and with malicious aforethought doing it to make a point to both Huberdeau and Treliving while tanking the season.

    Either ways the organization, the players, & the fans suffer, while Sutter feeds his overgrown ego.

  11. Sutter rolls 4 lines. For some reason this season he doesn’t shorten his bench and keeps playing Lucic

  12. BillMcCrearysStache

    Ive always liked Sutter but I think the game is starting to pass him by

  13. spitoon1

    Good old Darryl, blindly rotating 4 lines.

    Last week vs Ottawa there was a situation where Ottawa had back to back icings…4thbline was out for both offensive zone face offs.

    Oy.

  14. Grimmer026

    I am very worried about Huberdeau and Kadri will be an albatross when we clearly need to start a rebuild

  15. Nice_one_

    He could maybe try being productive and he can play more. He shouldn’t be stuck with Kadri though. I’d like to see him with Duehr and Pelletier. Duehr is a centre right?

  16. MeowPow21

    Huberdeau is 5th among forwards in ice time. Lindholm, Backlund, Kadri, and Mangiapane (by 2 secs) are ahead. This doesn’t really seem that egregious to me, especially when most of those ahead also play on the PK, which is part of the higher ice time. I think it’s also fair to say that Lindholm and Backs especially have deservedly played more (apart from the PK).

  17. Conscious-Donut

    He doesn’t deserve any more ice time. He’s been terrible

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