As has been intimated, Sutter is the right guy for a team on the cusp, with a fair bit of talent and skills, but needing the edge/push/nasty streak/confidence that he can provide by the way he pushes buttons. Obviously his LA time proved that.
The Flames with their young guys are a year or two away from needing that sort of coach, of course assuming that GG can't get them over the hump.
No need to get into this but I will defend his GM time here. He took risks and made some mistakes that didn't work out. But he made a lot of decisions that did work out and got a lot of players here that wouldn't have come here without him and him being a standup guy and man of his word. Given the complete joke his predecessor was and, who he himself succeeded (neither of which have been in the league since their respective Flame gigs), he's judged about too harshly, especially considering he wanted to go back to the bench and do both jobs after Playfair got disrespected by the dressing room. The owners (Edwards) said no so he hired Keenan.
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