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Brad Treliving had dialled this number before.

This time, the answer was different.

“That wasn’t my first go-round. I don’t know if I told you that, but this wasn’t the first time I’d gone to him to get him back in the coaches’ room,” Treliving revealed Thursday after Sutter was announced as a finalist for the Jack Adams Award. “He has a great passion for it, but I don’t think he was looking to coach 32 different teams. I think there was a specific team that he’d like to coach. As I always said to him, to me, he’s a Calgary Flame. He belongs as a Calgary Flame. I know he’s coached other places, I know he’s won Cups in L.A., but he’s an Alberta boy and it just feels right when he’s behind the bench of the Calgary Flames.

“I kept impressing upon him that this was home for him, this is where he belongs,” Treliving said, recalling those conversations. “He’s one of the very best to ever do this, and we needed him. So I’m glad he decided to take me up on my persistence.”