The Athletic – Comment un Darryl Sutter farouchement provocateur a perdu la chambre et son emploi à Calgary
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EvilGRAHAM
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The Athletic – Comment un Darryl Sutter farouchement provocateur a perdu la chambre et son emploi à Calgary
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EvilGRAHAM
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Good riddance.
TIL that Darryl Sutter only played 406 NHL games. I may not be alone that the Sutter mystique makes me mistakenly believe the Sutter brothers had longer careers than they actually did.
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I was saying sutter lost the room back in December. Ppl downvote me and said I was nuts.
All the signs were there.
I’m optimistic for this new season, and with iggy back the sky’s the limit.
Sutters old school hockey mentality, while likely great for a playoff run, is not sustainable during the regular season. You can’t keep the heater on at full blast for 82 games with the mentality of this generation of players.
What a great article! Kudos to The Athletic team of Strang, McKenzie and Salvian for this.
I could tell something was off by Christmas, knew something was off by the all-star break and fingers started pointing strongly in Sutter’s direction late in the year.
I really hope that this was the problem, because if it wasn’t, Conroy is going to have one heck of a tough job making key changes with the underperforming key players and their long expensive contracts.
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The only new piece of information I picked up from this article was that the team investigated an allegation that Sutter got physical with a player on the bench back in November but nothing really came of it (and the player said that he didn’t feel it crossed a line).
Good riddance. Everything about this guy is outdated. He was definitely one of the major problems
Really great article. I’m a sutter fan but this is really eye opening. Do you think players spoke off the record for this? I had no idea about the internal investigation of the physical altercation! Was it public?!
>In November, the franchise launched an internal investigation to probe an incident after Sutter allegedly made physical contact with a player on the bench during a game.
Did anyone hear about this during the season?
Don’t have the athletic but saw the cp spark notes on it, and ya this isn’t surprising. Sutter has allegedly gotten physical with players in the past and is a well known asshole. Still cringe at flames fans who fans defended his behaviour to the media because of his clout. This type of coaching is from a bygone era…
Good riddance.
In my opinion, Sutter has a great hockey mind but his approach to coaching is probably about 25 years out of date. The general style of his defensive systems are solid but you need buy in from the entire team, and if you have players dogging it on defense the system falls apart. Offensively, the approach of outshooting the opponent will generally work but he likely needs to let players be more creative in the offensive zone; after all, one high danger shot is probably worth 2 shots from the point without traffic.
From the sound of it he doesn’t know the difference between holding people accountable and bullying people. The accusations aren’t as bad as Bill Peters or Babcock, but it does show an approach that has become less and less tolerable since the 1990s.
I think a new coach, GM and having Iggy back is a perfect way to start fresh and foster a new culture for the Flames.
I found it interesting that Tkachuk and Gudbranson were the buffer between Sutter and the team. Says a lot about the relationship he had with other players on the team such as Backlund and Lindholm.
Depressing. Especially when you consider how Darryl played a role in driving Gaudreau and Tkachuk out. As fans, we went from potentially getting a decade of Gaudreau-Lindholm-Tkachuk wrecking the league to watching them most/all of them leave.
What a sad horrible end to that era. Hopefully Conroy and Iginla can turn the page and get the team to better heights.
You either leave a hero or stay long enough to become the villain. I’ll remember him for 04’ and that’s it- can’t wait to move on from this
Fuck Darryl. Way to ruin a legacy.
We lost our top players because of this old codger.
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