So many feelings about this.
I don't know if this will work, I don't know if Sutter is the right coach for this team in this situation. Sutter hasn't been coaching for a while, and doesn't know the team, and there isn't much time to straighten the course this season. If there's an initial push back from the players, or Sutters tough approach creates rifts inside the team, this could blow up spectacularly... At least this season.
The media attention and pressure to perform will be insane, and that's not going to make things easy, unless the team immediately starts winning.
All that said, I love it. This isn't arranging deckchairs, this is taking a ramming course towards the iceberg and seeing if this ship/team can take it.
If I was a betting man, I'd go with the crowd that says this isn't a Treliving hire, this just doesn't feel like his style. For one thing, Flames just brought in a guy that's effectively above Treliving. If Darryl says he doesn't like Treliving, the owners won't even listen to his side, Brad will be gone.
Of course that goes both ways. If Darryl gets us a playoff win and Treliving can convince Darryl he knows what he's doing, that probably buys him at least a couple more seasons.
If nothing else, this was an interesting move, and my interest in Flames hockey just got a huge boost.
I haven't been this excited to see what happens with the Flames in a long time
