Le développement de Ruzicka est ruiné par Sutter et Lucic
Saw the Ruzicka CGY hubub so ran a Looch WOWY.
I honestly feel for my friends who are CGY fans. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/glt84hgMyK
— Woodguy (@Woodguy55) March 13, 2023
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robochobo
@Flames de Calgary
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And here’s Lucic and Lewis.
Lucic is single-handedly the worst player in the league when you factor both production and contract and Sutter can’t stop putting him in the lineup. Fun
I really don’t understand it myself. The kid was playing great and yes I know he fell off but I think the message has been received.
He can’t get any better if u don’t play him.
Fourth line should be:
Ruzicka-Lewis-Duehr
Maybe even:
Ritchie-Ruzicka-Duehr
Sutter is *very obviously* giving lucic (and Lewis to a lesser extent) a dignified retirement, it has nothing to do with his merit or lack thereof on the ice.
15 games left, we just have to deal with it.
It’s so weird that when Dube found consistency and established his role it was a major success but when Valimaki and Ruzicka don’t, their lack of consistency is Sutter’s fault, and not their own.
At 23 Ruzicka is probably as developed as he’s going to get… And the knock against him is that he disappears for weeks. That’s not a development issue.
Personally I’d alternate games between Ritchie and Lucic while keeping Lewis and Duehr all the time.
Imagine thinking that GF% is an actual valid analysis of a players performance… That’s basically just taking a players +/- stat and saying someone with a high +/- is good and a low +/- is bad without looking into why that’s the case. He’s probably the type of person who wouldn’t want Draisaitl on his team since he’s a -3 and would claim that Thomas Tatar has been better for his team since he’s +38
I always find it funny that whenever you hear Sutter isn’t giving someone ice time or is sitting them in the pressbox, he’s ruining their development. Then the second the player does the behind the scenes work and improvement to earn a larger role, they play much better than before. Everyone who complained before then says this was obviously the player we have had all along, Sutter is ruining prospects by not realizing this earlier. Then either their play slips and they lose ice time so the process starts over, or their play continues to stay strong so then a new young player is who everyone focuses on. This cycle has already repeated itself with Kylington, Dube, Ruzicka once already, and Pelletier. Yet people still beat that drum that our organization has no clue what they’re doing and Sutter doesn’t trust youth every time a new player gets limited time.
Why Blame Looch? It’s not his fault the coach values outdated qualities. Also, his development has been partly thwarted by his own lack of engagement when he’s not in a top line role.