@Calgary4LIfe
Sutter is just a bad option. I don't care what he said about the Flames and their transition game. I've been saying the same thing since Ward replaced Peters and Peters made the systemic change just prior to the playoffs two years ago. It's something really obvious that anyone with a semi-functioning brain should be able to pick up on. The problem with Sutter is the game he employs and the style he forces on the team. Sutter does not work with the talent he has, he mandates a heavy smash mouth game that really grinds the opposition down. The Calgary Flames do not have the personnel to play that type of game, not unless you want to see Lucic, Robinson, Leivo, and Ritchie as mainstays in the lineup. Sutter's teams relied heavily on dump & chase and physicality to retrieve pucks. That would be about as successful as the game the Flames are being forced to use right now by the pinhead in chief. This team is not built for dump and chase, which is why allowing teams time to setup defensively which forces them to use dump and chase is such a ridiculously bad idea, but that is Ward's system in a nutshell. Sutter would have them improve the transition game, but he would still have them play dump and chase as that is in his DNA and has been central to every team he's coached.
I appreciate you loved Sutter, but the guy is a dinosaur. The Hockey Hall of Fame has no interest in Darryl Sutter's effects for a display, but the Royal Tyrell keeps bugging him. His preferred style of play would be an anachronism in today's game. His reliance on aging veterans would drive the fans insane and would require a makeover of the team that just isn't possible thanks to COVID and the inability to make a trade. The roster he has to work with would not be able to play the game he would expect as they are just too small.
I would also like to dispel a myth forming around Darryl Sutter (what is it with myth building around this place?). Sutter was not some great coach here. Sutter coached for two and a half seasons. He took over from Gilbert and the team barely played .500 hockey the remainder of that season. He deconstructed the team and rebuilt it to suit his own image over the next season and that team snuck into the playoffs as the final seed and went on the improbable run. The following post-lockout season they won the division, and then that was the end of Sutter as the coach, handing the reigns to Jim Playfair and then Mike Keenan (bad coaching hires). Sutter then managed to #### the team up so bad with his tweaking and mismanagement that they never amounted to much and he resigned in December 2010, leaving the team in shambles after gutting the team of prospects and picks. We glorify this guy for two years of work behind the bench, mostly on the back of an improbable run to the finals? What is most ironic about Sutter teams is that is their MO. Scratch and claw their way into the post season then rely on the heavy game to win the war of attrition. The Flames are not constructed to play that game. Sutter would be a terrible choice for the team. Don't get me wrong, it would be a very Calgary Flames decision to bring in Sutter (square peg/round hole) and expect results, but it would not end well.
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