Flames fire Geoff Ward, hire Darryl Sutter, signs 3 year deal

[handgroen]

is lindholm a centre or RW w/ gaudreau and monahan in sutter's eyes?

he's our best player and i honestly have no read on how our new coach will use him saturday.

[Traditional_Ale]

nm

[dino7c]

First practice

"you can dodge a ball you can dodge a wrench"

[JohnnyB]

The Flames now have a top notch head coach, a top notch goalie, and a GM who is strong on player acquisition and contracts. This is a lot of what anyone could hope for.

[Traditional_Ale]

Originally Posted by handgroen

is lindholm a centre or RW w/ gaudreau and monahan in sutter's eyes?

he's our best player and i honestly have no read on how our new coach will use him.

he's our best player. i'm sure satanically accordingly.

[automaton 3]

Great news! Stoked for the game on Saturday. The boys are going to be flying.

[D as in David]

Say goodbye to the mental fragility this team has been guilty of for so many seasons.

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Ashasx

Darryl Sutter remains the only coach in NHL history who has defeated all three division winners on his way the the Stanley Cup Finals - and he's done it twice.

(of course this can't be done anymore with the new division setup but whatever)

I think you still can: round 1 wild card cross-over, round 2 in your division, then on you go

(not this year, of course)

[Yamer]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

I think people are assuming this because Treliving has passed over Sutter twice now when he was available amid a coaching change. Also, some have this silly notion that Treliving would not hire an experienced coach because he secretly feared a hostile takeover from within, or some such nonsense.

I think it is likely that this ws a decision made in close consultation with ownership, but I don't believe for a second that Sutter was hired by anyone but Treliving.

By default any head coach is hired by the General Manager. However, Brad Treliving, despite any and all options, settled or decided on Geoff Ward as his head coach only months ago.

Rumours going back had ownership in favor of Sutter. Yes, those are rumours and speculation. In that time they have had Gulutzan, Peters, and Ward. And, if pressed for resume and tenure, there has been Boudreau, Gallant, Laviolette, etc. during that time.

I agree that there was no stupid conspiracy regarding coups and whatnot, and I'm hesitant to say ownership was adverse to hiring a premium dollar coach. I argue that it seems clear, from his hiring pattern, that Treliving was given autonomy and committed to hiring within his own vision of the team...which I think we can agree has been an ongoing flaw and failure. This is outside what we have seen Treliving operating.

If anything, given Treliving's record I expected a Huska promotion and/or general restructuring or re-arrangement with the current staff. Buying time or shifting pieces around.

Hiring Darryl Sutter, out of all people, was completely out of left field for me. It's not a shock a change was made. It's the specific hiring of Sutter that blows me away. This is so out of style for Treliving, which leads me to induce this was a call made above or beyond from Treliving.

No problem being wrong, just an educated observation.

[Dion]

Darryl Sutter is the same age as me

[topfiverecords]

God darn it, I was just going to go to bed right after finishing the game about 20 mins ago but caught the news on Sportsnet of Walter Gretzky’s passing so came to FoI. Guess I’ll be up for a while getting caught up.

Yay!! Sutter!!! Psyched!

[CsInMyBlood]

Originally Posted by motorcrosser

Can he kick some IQ into Bennett's head?

I think Sam Bennett is in trouble. Nothing Sutter doesn't like more than trying a fancy toe drag through 3 guys or having controller disconnect issues on your way back into the zone. He also expects you to win your share of board battles.

Sutter won't play you if he doesn't trust you. He also isn't going to ask you where you want to play.

Will be very interesting. This is going to be the ultimate wake up call.

[kermitology]

Originally Posted by Jiggy_12

Tell me back in 2004 that in 2021 Craig Conroy would be part of the management team that would hire Darryl Sutter as head coach, joining a staff that already featured Martin Gelinas, and I would tell you that it must some fan that won a contest to be GM.

This is incredible lol

Jason, are you wet?

[Traditional_Ale]

E=ng

[DeluxeMoustache]

Originally Posted by CsInMyBlood

I think Sam Bennett is in trouble. Nothing Sutter doesn't like more than trying a fancy toe drag through 3 guys or having controller disconnect issues on your way back into the zone. He also expects you to win your share of board battles.

Sutter won't play you if he doesn't trust you. He also isn't going to ask you where you want to play.

Will be very interesting. This is going to be the ultimate wake up call.

Yeah. And at the same time, do you really think Sutter doesn’t know how to teach players and set expectations ?

Sam Bennett isn’t the tail that wags the dog of the organization, as obsessed as people are about him

He’s a guy who has spent years without a good coach

And he is among many others

[handgroen]

Originally Posted by handgroen

is lindholm a centre or RW w/ gaudreau and monahan in sutter's eyes?

he's our best player and i honestly have no read on how our new coach will use him saturday.

Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale

he's our best player. i'm sure satanically accordingly.

[jg13]

Things are bad in Edmonton. Single ATL

Geoff ward is available and doesn’t need to quarantine

[CSharp]

Originally Posted by Dion

Darryl Sutter is the same age as me

You musta had your COVID vaccine shot last month

[Nsd1]

Darryl Sutter behind the bench with Blasty jerseys on the ice will be one hell of a nostalgia trip.

[Robbob]

If Sutter does have to go through NHL quarantine, I would pay to see an Ipad fastened to some sort of rover with Sutter mug on it behind the bench.