I just saw this piece on TSN's Season Preview coverage, and thought it was a pretty nice glimpse into my hockey personality, Darryl Sutter. It looks like he's really taken to life in California, and has incorporated somewhat of a new mindset as the Kings bench boss.
I know he wore some us thin during his final few years in Calgary, but I am so glad that things worked out for him in LA, and that he proved all of his doubters wrong. If you're a fan of Sutter (and I know many of us are) this video (and article) is definitely worth a look.
http://www.tsn.ca/duthie-you-don-t-know-darryl-1.101673
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Darryl Sutter won't stop talking.
This isn't an oxymoron. Or a dream sequence in another TSN Films skit.
This is truth
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On a sunny evening on the boardwalk of Manhattan Beach, California, the coach of two of the last three Stanley Cup champions is sharing his views on, in no particular order:
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For years, when he was general manager and/or head coach of the Calgary Flames, our interviews on the stage at the NHL Draft would be dislocated elbow-painful. He was the one guy I thought might actually Patrick Swayze/Roadhouse my throat when he didn't like a question. Which was pretty much every question. Bob McKenzie would get giddy every year waiting for those two minutes, when Darryl would eye-murder me on the draft stage.
Around Year 3 of our stage (cage) matches, he got up at the end of the interview (after I'd thrown to commercial), smiled and punched me so hard in the shoulder it buckled me. This would become an annual ritual. I contemplated becoming the first TV host to wear shoulder pads underneath my jacket (not the suit type for guys with bony shoulders...the actual hockey kind). Still, I took this abuse as some warped Sutter sign of affection. Or tolerance at least. "I'm never giving you a thing kid, but I understand you have to ask."
After that, any time I'd see him away from the stage or the podium, away from the media masses, he'd smile and chat like we were on the same bowling team (which would be an AWESOME sitcom premise).
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