Darryl Sutter is a tough SOB

[Canada 02]

Sutter needed double hernia surgery since last fall, but gutted it out to prove a point

The Mayor John Hoven ‏@mayorNHL 6h Lombardi said Sutter didn't have surgery earlier because he wanted to prove to players the importance of playing injured. WOW!

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sports...tory?track=rss


His boss, Kings General Manager Dean Lombardi, joked about Sutter's legendary stubbornness. Apparently, Sutter was trying to set an example for his players. Coaching in pain?


"You know what, I don't want him to get any sympathy, at all," Lombardi said, joking, on Sunday morning. "That stubborn whatever. Clearly, he was aware of this last year. And during the lockout he was told to have it taken care of and as we know, sometimes, it's not going to go away.


"Not only did he do one of his finest coaching jobs this year, I can remember how many mornings where he would come in and he was in pain. But he wouldn't let anybody know. I told him at that time, 'You'll get no sympathy from me, buddy.' This could have been done back in November, but you just didn't want to do it. So he was in a lot of pain there this week, but no sympathy."


"You talk about players playing injured ... this guy [Sutter] was injured and he was still playing every day and nobody knew. I remember sometimes he couldn't get up. ...There's your classic Western Canadian."

[Badgers Nose]

So stupid.

[keenan87]

wow sounds like a movie

[Singularity]

Sutter didn't have surgery earlier because he wanted to prove to players the importance of playing injured.

Stupid, just plain stupid, if thats the point he is trying to prove.

[normtwofinger]

Tough? Yes. Stupid? Yes.

[skudr248]

double hernias ... ouch, had 2 so far and i'm only 22, and damn do they ever ####ing suck! I know the feeling where you can't get up because the pain is so severe that you can't feel your leg

[jeffman]

Admirable but foolish

[you got PHANUEFED]

Stories like this are cool to hear.

[WilderPegasus]

Sounds like he was afraid to go see the doctor. In other words he's a guy.

[Miniac]

Wow sounds painful!

[Azhouse]

When my father was going to build his new house a few years ago it was discovered that he had a hernia. He bought this hernia belt that basically pushed his guts back in while we built his house. He had surgery after he moved in.

[kyuss275]

LOL Sutter cracks me up. Was it stupid? hell yes. I think he has watched to many John Wayne movies. At the same time its stories like these and his media coaching comments that leave me smiling.

Sutter is the only former Flame that has raised a cup with another team, that made me happy for more than the usual 3 minutes.

[Crazy Bacon Legs]

This is truly admirable. Good for Darryl.

It reminds me of the time I was on a hike with some local inner city children and their farm animals (it's like 4H club except with hiking and mountain climbing). We were about three hours into a nine hour hike, when suddenly I felt a sharp pain in my chest.

I went briefly to one knee as pain radiated down my left arm and into my jaw. The children stopped and looked at me. "Are you okay?" one little sprite of a girl asked as she struggled to keep her llama form falling off a rocky outcropping. "Yeah, you look pale and are sweating a lot," said a small boy carrying his duck in a sack.

Now, I could have given in and just called off the hike. A helicopter could have whisked me away to the finest available hospital with one simple phone call. But I wouldn't allow it. But I'm a man. I don't let no pain or medical condition get in the way of MY farm animal hikes. "I'm... fine," I gasped, getting to my feet. I pulled on the rope that my muskox was attached to and directed the kids to gather their livestock and continue on. There was a lesson to be taught, and I intended to teach it.

We hiked the next six hours with me gasping for breath and almost passing out several times form the pain. Each step was agony. I had to carry the muskox for seventeen miles when it sprained an ankle. But I endured. There was an incident with a pig headbutting someone's goose, but that's to be expected. The rest is a blur, really. One child tried to call 9-1-1, but I threw her phone in the lake.

Finally, we reached our destination. I was dead set against even bothering with the hospital, but one of the children insisted when it looked like her emu was going to cry. It really is a strange club, to be honest.

Turns out over 40% of my heart died. The doctor said it was from "atherosclerosis" and "lack of immediate medical attention", but I like to think it was actually from pride: the pride of knowing I toughed it out against all odds, and showed all those kids and their animals the true meaning of hikes with livestock (and Christmas).

I also showed them what it takes to be a man. Except the girls. I guess I showed them what it takes to be a real woman, maybe? The point it, I am probably the best role model those poor kids could ever have. Except maybe for Darryl Sutter. That man is one tough SOB.

[kermitology]

That's where you've been! That's one hell of a return, I must say!

[blender]

Originally Posted by kyuss275

LOL Sutter cracks me up. Was it stupid? hell yes. I think he has watched to many John Wayne movies. At the same time its stories like these and his media coaching comments that leave me smiling.

Sutter is the only former Flame that has raised a cup with another team, that made me happy for more than the usual 3 minutes.

Vernon won the cup and the Conn Smythe with the Wings in 1997
Also, I think Joe Mullen won with pittsburgh in the early 90's

[Canada 02]

Originally Posted by blender

Vernon won the cup and the Conn Smythe with the Wings in 1997

Yeah, but did it make him happy for more than 3 minutes?

[blender]

Originally Posted by Canada 02

Yeah, but did it make him happy for more than 3 minutes?

Oh, I see what he means.
That was a good one for Vernon, though. Came from the bench and stole the show

[theinfinitejar]

This thread has given us the return of Crazy Bacon Legs, that makes Sutter's decision worth it 10/10 times.

[Yamer]

Yeah, lots of former Flames have won Cups.

[Milt Schmidt]

That reminds me of a story I read in the Herald a few years ago about a couple of the Sutter's riding horseback and one of them falling with the horse rolling over him, and him not bothering to go to a doctor for a few days. Can't remember which Sutter it was, or much more detail than that though. That is a tough, tough family.

Milt