If the Kings win, is Sutter a lock for the HOF?

[Stay Golden]

Sutter's coaching record and longevity speaks for itself. HOF will gladly induct him.

[trackercowe]

I think some sort of exception should be made so that the whole Sutter clan can be inducted. Maybe at least some of plaque in the HoF or something to recognize their continuous history in the league. I doubt there is another family in professional sports that comes close to the amount of professionals that have made the majors over the years.

[agulati]

In Sutter We Trust?

I wish he had stepped back to coaching here in Calgary.

[SebC]

Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle

Sutter is a dinosaur and has lost touch with the new game and how to win in the modern era...................circa 2006 comment

To be fair, isn't that also what Sutter thought?

[calgarywinning]

People can change and learn, circumstances change. Sutter has adapted and been resilient in his career, post GM. It's kind of like Regehr ending up in LA. Who can tell?

[AC]

Originally Posted by sun

Kinda funny, I seem to remember the hiring was largely panned by the media. But being the clever people we are here, CP knew Lombardi made a great choice.

Dowbiggin in particular had some hilarious tweets. Something about "watch van and det and tell me why you'd hire Sutter" or something lol. Someone should dig those up.

@dowbboy
Really, DSutter is like malaria in the NHL system. Just keep recurring and making people ill.

@dowbboy
So watch the Wings/ Canucks skill display tonight and tell me why you would hire Darryl Sutter for any reason as your coach.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Tough to say. Pat Burns has a cup, more wins and a better winning percentage and he's not yet in the HOF.

Which is criminal.

[Parallex]

Originally Posted by trackercowe

I doubt there is another family in professional sports that comes close to the amount of professionals that have made the majors over the years.

The Andretti's are pretty close.

[wretched34]

Add the Earnhardts, and if you count wrestling, the Hart family is likely the leader.
The Staals have a pretty good shot to rival the Sutters, if all 4 brothers can keep the bloodlines strong.

[Barnet Flame]

Originally Posted by rollie619

In fact he has made the finals 3 times in his last 5 years as a coach. The man literally makes the cup finals every other year!

Man, that is depressing.

Wish he'd never gone upstairs.

[Locke]

The LA Kings are a significantly better and more balanced team than the Flames of that era though.

[IgiTang]

Originally Posted by Barnet Flame

Man, that is depressing.

Wish he'd never gone upstairs.

Been saying since it happened that KK should have been fired. D.Sutter is arguably the best coach this team ever had. Arguably the worst GM.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by IgiTang

Been saying since it happened that KK should have been fired. D.Sutter is arguably the best coach this team ever had. Arguably the worst GM.

The problem was that D. Sutter brought family into the equation. There are some things more important than hockey (like family), and I get the sense that if the pair wasn't working, that they (the Flames) weren't going to allow one brother to fire the other brother.

[MelBridgeman]

Originally Posted by IgiTang

Been saying since it happened that KK should have been fired. D.Sutter is arguably the best coach this team ever had. Arguably the worst GM.

ha ha he isn't even arguably the worst GM the team has ever had - he isn't even close to worse.

[Party Elephant]

Originally Posted by ricardodw

Babcock has never taken an underdog team further than they were charted to go.

I'm not sure if you're being serious here. That's exactly what he did with the 2003 Ducks, aka his breakout from being a nobody to the most sought after coach in the NHL.

[ricardodw]

Originally Posted by Party Elephant

I'm not sure if you're being serious here. That's exactly what he did with the 2003 Ducks, aka his breakout from being a nobody to the most sought after coach in the NHL.

I stand corrected.... I was only looking at the Red Wings where he at best just got them to where there talent was supposed to get them.

[AC]

Originally Posted by fotze

I think Sutter was the first person that saw Dowboy for the fraud he was and called him on that and that struck a nerve.

People who are full of crap can go lifetimes without people calling them on it since most people are actually overly nice.

Once Sutter and the Kings win the cup again, we're going to collectively go after Bowbiggen a bit for these comments, right?

What a turd.

[jschick88]

Didn't want to start a new thread but this is a must read. Just a terrific story.

The email came from a 25-year-old in New York; we’ll call him Brian. He enclosed a picture of his older brother, who we’ll call Henry. Henry is 27, and lives in Chicago. He has Down’s syndrome. In the picture he is looking off to the side but he is smiling, and Darryl Sutter’s arm is around him. Darryl is smiling, too.

Brian wasn’t looking for a story, and Henry doesn’t want to be famous, so their names have been changed. But Brian had just watched Sutter’s press conferences, with that plain Prairie voice and that unimpressed rubber face and the clipped short answers that are becoming famous. Brian saw people calling Sutter rude, or laughing, as if that was the measure of the man.

He knew it wasn’t, because his father once read an article that mentioned Sutter’s third child, Christopher, who has Down’s syndrome. The father read the piece aloud with Henry. Henry wrote Sutter a letter. Sutter was the coach of the San Jose Sharks.

http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey...rt_arthur.html

[saillias]

Originally Posted by AC

@dowbboy
Really, DSutter is like malaria in the NHL system. Just keep recurring and making people ill.

@dowbboy
So watch the Wings/ Canucks skill display tonight and tell me why you would hire Darryl Sutter for any reason as your coach.

Not sure exactly how Twitter works, but I hope someone can post this publicly to his Twitter... after the sweep of course.

[saillias]

Originally Posted by fotze

I think Sutter was the first person that saw Dowboy for the fraud he was and called him on that and that struck a nerve.

People who are full of crap can go lifetimes without people calling them on it since most people are actually overly nice.

Haha, like this sentence a lot.