« À un moment donné, me dit-on, Darryl Sutter a exprimé sa frustration sur le banc pour le jeu de puissance et comment cela n’avait pas fonctionné. Et la réponse des joueurs était comme » nous n’avons pas travaillé sur le jeu de puissance une fois cette saison . Comme littéralement pas une seule fois. Donc, si vous voulez critiquer le jeu de puissance, alors peut-être que nous aurions dû y travailler.
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I think deep down, we all knew this was the case…
Some happier news, also a quote from Seravalli: « They’re not there yet, they’re not ready to make that decision, but every indication I have strongly points toward Mitch Love coming from the Wranglers directly to the Calgary Flames bench. »
If this is true it’s kind of hilarious but also stupid
Wtf
I’m not great with making memes, but I believe this is where the surprised Pikachu face comes into play.
That can’t be real. That’s actually ludicrous for a professional team. My jaw just dropped
Somebody explain this to me, cause surely I must be stupid if I interpret this as « we didn’t practice the powerplay at all ». Please.
Fire Kirk Muller
???????? This defies logic
That’s so ridiculous that I don’t want to believe it.
That checks out
Sutter had so many confusing calls this season. Part of me wonders if he was trying to get fired or he’s just losing it.
Personally, I would have been ok going into the season with Sutter and seeing how things go with more time to gel as a squad. There was a tonne of roster upheaval this past year and it was a lot to expect that come out and be world beaters. As with was the Flames barely missed the playoffs. But losing is losing and the business they’re in is winning and if that failed to pass the team’s minimum measure of success, so be it. And Sutter brought it on himself by failing to be adaptive in key parts of the team’s game.
There’s lots to hate about this move even if I accept it. For one, we’ve perpetuated the coaching carousel yet again. I think that’s been a big part of our inconsistency over the last several years. Additionally, I don’t think that we can become a team where the players try to run the room by leveraging their contracts as threats. Real or rumoured, it’s unbecoming of our supposed big stars of Khadri, Huberdeau, Lindholm and Backlund to have been sore losers at times this season. It feels like they’re out there playing for themselves and not this team and the city. Lindholm and Backlund especially would be big time on my trade list as a GM this summer if they’re not prepared to commit now that their dirty deed has been done.
To look for in the upside I think the bottom rungs of the coaching ladder needed clearing out more than the top end. And I would suspect any new coach would be empowered to do so. We have some great coaching talent in the organization that I would hope could make the transition easier, especially for some key young players. And when it comes to the veterans, I think that there’s good reason to believe that a different approach could help a lot of guys have bounce-back years. If Lindy is back and he along with Khadri, Huberdeau and Markstrom can put together solidly better seasons than last year, I think we’ll still be in a good position.
Overall feeling, wary, but accepting.
Seravalli, the guy who just spent two weeks saying that Sutter is 99% gonna remain our coach for next season?
The guys sources here are clearly dogshit. Actually I’d argue most of his sources, outside of a Philly, are dogshit.
If true this is a fireable offence on its own.
In fact, it might be worth a class action lawsuit against the guy!
If this is actually true then it is the most insane thing I have ever heard.
Fairly sure this isn’t completely true but I wouldn’t be surprised if they barely practiced it at all. We had a good penalty kill so did we not practice that either? Can’t really practice one without the other
No fucking way ..
This is such bizarre behaviour and concept that there is no way anyone could make this up. Unbelievable!
I heard they never actually practiced at all. They just counted their money.
Thanks, asshole. Winning the Jack Adams definitely got to his head. What kind of coach doesn’t practice the powerplay at all when years ago, when he was a coach with the Kings, claimed special teams were the difference in winning and losing a series. What the fuck? So much for unfinished business.
I mean. All signs are pointing towards Sutter wanting to be let go at this point?
So that’s why it looked like a rec-league power play.
Because it basically was.
Wasn’t there a story about Mike Keenan saying this as a bald-face lie to CGY media years ago?
Was a bit of a Sutter apologist, and still think his system was fine. But give me a break, between this and creating a toxic environment, plus player usage, it was time for Sutter to head back to the farm.
Why the fuck isn’t our local media reporting on this? It’s insane to me local reporters didn’t report on not practicing the pp or Huberdeau playing his off wing.
Goes to show you our media is insanely bad.
It always looked like they were just improvising, so I definitely believe they didn’t have an actual strategy.
Incompetence.
I’m sorry but I do not believe this for a second, I think Frank has left out key details to make a headline because there is 0 chance they never practiced the power play and that info is just now coming out.
This is one of those things that are like having Huberdeau on the wrong wing for 68 games. There’s just no way it can be true. But, alas…
Sutter has no business coaching in the modern NHL with his kind of outlook on the game. The parity in the league is so tight now that overtime wins and an average powerplay can be the difference between a bubble team and a contender. No wonder the players and BT were frustrated this season. You can’t just neglect a major aspect of team success and expect to win when other teams are working hard at it
Muller: Okay, just like last season we give the puck to Johnny and let him go nuts for two minutes
Andersson: Coach…he’s no longer here…he’s in Columbo
Muller: …fuck
Wait …. We had a power play?!?!?
lol the least surprising news of the day. You could tell just by watching that they never worked on it.
But yeah, that’s damning. Shades of Keenan. I was saying it all season long that it looked like Sutter was miserable and that he didn’t even want to be here anymore.
Trying to make sense of this seems impossible but did they not practice the PP in 21-22 either? Where did the non-practicing start?
I definitely made the comment “do we even practice 3v3 this year” at some point completely sarcastically. Because there’s no way on earth a professional team that was a bee’s dick away from setting the OTL record wouldn’t practice you know BEING IN OT AT SOME POINT
How do you start a season in which you have lost the main drivers of your power play from the last season, trying to build the team with a new core, struggle on the PP all season, and not practice it?
We clearly didn’t practice defensive coverage or breakouts either.
Hold up a second lmao WHAT
…and it showed
Sorry, this is just wrong. Numerous local reporters have contradicted this statement and confirmed its untrue.
It’s likely that Frank misunderstood the information that players didn’t practice 3v3, which from all accounts sounds accurate. But the PP story is objectively false.
Not shot this is true lol like what?!?
Not true, he meant that they didn’t practice 3v3. Which is bad but they ABSOLUTELY practiced the power play. I remember specific practices all they did was special teams. This rumour is incorrect and Seravalli should make a point to think before he speaks.
I am a sutter fan, but boy oh boy, especially if this is all true, Calgary could have seriously benefited with having a captain to help represent the team better! You think any captain on any other team in the lead would let that fly? They’d fight for their boys.
where are all the Sutter lovers now? Jumped on our bandwagon that’s where! WOOOOOOO!
It looked like they didn’t, and I was thinking the special teams coaches were just not great. Anyhow it’s tough, loved sutter as a hard nose coach…we owe him still for all he has done.
Are we talking about practice?
~~-Allen Iverson~~
-Darryl Sutter
WTF they literally practiced the power play at the open practice lol
And it showed
They got lots of practice playing 3 on 3 and shootouts though, during actual overtimes.