Assuming Vigneault doesn't get hired by anyone, Sutter should finish the year 9th all time in regular season wins and a great chance to get to 4th all time in playoff wins.
That screams HHOF to me.
Have to watch out for Jon Cooper on the playoff wins thing though. He's only 10 behind Sutter and his team remains a perennial Cup contender..
Hope that 'multi-year' means a decade! In all seriousness, I infer it to be either a 2 year or a 3 year deal. I am surprised at this actually - I thought Sutter was going to retire after this season.
It blows my mind that when Sutter was leading the team on that 03-04 run that he was younger at that time than I am now. He's still got lots of life left in him.
Fans and media alike were calling him an outdated dinosaur of a coach when he signed here in 2002, at the age of 44.
Twenty years later he signs a new contract with the team, fresh of a coach of the year award. Sutter's one of the best, and if he manages to win one here he'll be considered one of the best of all time
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Always a bit of a risk in the last year of a coach's contract that he can be tuned out and a bit of a lame duck with the players. Zero chance of that now (for this year).
Message to the players: this is Darryl's world, and you're just living in it.
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I would love to be a fly on the wall for a Tre negotiation with Edwards for his own contract. Lol.
Murray will want to get the easier negotiations out of the way first: new arena deal; new stadium deal for the Stamps; new Calgary Olympic bid; peace in Crimea... then, he'll be ready to negotiate with Brad.
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These next 3 years will probably be the last years Darryl is with the organization. It Is very fortunate and unique to have one of the worlds greatest coaches, from Alberta, he embodies that hard-working, western rancher ethic and transfers that mentality to the teams he coaches. I doubt we’ll see teams in Calgary with such a strong identity once he leaves. I’m going to sit back and enjoy it, we’ll all be lamenting it when he’s gone.
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