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I just think it's funny that Darryl Sutter moved into Terry Murray's house

Sounds like a sit-com, kind of. Good stuff coming out now in advance of the Kings/Flames game on Saturday.

Sutter vs. Sutter - The Globe and Mail

Darryl Sutter is on the phone from Los Angeles, in advance of his big homecoming this weekend, talking about cows. Sutter is a rancher, [...] and on Sunday night, he and brother Brent were discussing their herds and how it’s calving season. Worryingly, there are some calcium deficiencies in the stock. [...]

In all, the much-anticipated Sutter vs. Sutter match-up Saturday will be the 32nd time in his life that Darryl has coached against one of his brothers [...]. Twenty-nine came against Brian, two against Duane. In 1997, [...] it happened under oddly similar circumstances – Darryl coming to Calgary for the first time with a California-based team (the San Jose Sharks), with Brian behind the Flames’ bench.

[...] Sutter never did speak publicly about his departure from Calgary, but on Wednesday, he said the perception that he bore a grudge against the organization was untrue. "Absolutely not," Sutter said. "You know what? I almost feel today exactly as I did when I first went there – that it’s a privilege for a guy, being from Alberta, to coach and manage one of those teams. It’s awesome."

As a family with seven boys, six of whom made it to the NHL, the Sutters have long ago figured out how to separate family matters from the inherent competitive fires that run through them all, according to Darryl. [...] He’ll spend Friday and Saturday at home in Calgary with his wife, Wanda, and son Christopher. On Sunday, his daughter, her husband and his granddaughter will be in attendance in Edmonton, where the Kings play the Oilers.

"We were always like that," Sutter said. "As players, we could see each other the night before, but the day of, we never even looked at each other. Usually, we were captains. It was just too hard, so that was the unwritten rule – stay away from each other on the day of the game. That was always the best way to do it." [...]

Last Tuesday, on the first Kings’ off day in a while, Darryl finally moved into his new place – Murray’s house, as it happens. That happens all the time when players get traded – they swap houses as well – but not as frequently among coaches. His wife and son will come down to Los Angeles during the all-star break, but they are otherwise staying behind in Calgary so Christopher can finish Grade 12.

Estranged Sutter brothers had “a good chit-chat” | ProHockeyTalk

When it comes to life in the NHL, the road can be long. With many a winding turn. For two Sutter brothers – Darryl and Brent – the road led to Calgary. Darryl as general manager of the Flames, Brent as coach. Things did not end well. Last December, with the Flames on their way to a second straight playoff miss, Darryl “stepped down.” [...] Somewhere along the way, the working relationship between the brothers had become untenable. How untenable? According to the Calgary Sun, the brothers didn’t speak to each other for more than a year after Darryl left — a period of silence that was “prompted by anger, frustration and personality clashes that dotted their working relationship as GM and head coach.”

The good news is that the healing process has begun. On Sunday, the brothers spoke on the phone. “We had a good chit-chat — it was good,” Brent told the Sun. “We talked about their team, about our team … never once did we talk about anything personally. We talked about the kids. We were all over the map with it. That was the first time I talked to him. It was nice.”

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No hard feelings.

I read about this over on the insider, and a fan said he read it here. Strange how things workout. To have to rent your house out after being fired is kinda sad. To rent it out to the guy who took your job is a class act..

by defrim65 on Jan 11, 2012 9:18 PM PST reply actions   1 recs

Did you see Hammond’s transcript of Murray’s interview on SiriusXM (or maybe you have SiriusXM and listened to it)? I was 100% what you would expect of him: matter-of-fact, level-headed, a pinch of self-criticism. And all of it, I thought, sincere. Far and away the most negative thing that he said was that he was “disappointed” that he was fired…. Well, duh, what self-respecting coach wouldn’t be disappointed to be fired, no matter what the circumstance?

Whatever his limitations as a coach, there always seemed to be something about TM the person that I could respect, if not admire.

"I think you just outed yourself as Dean Lombardi. I knew it all along." β€” Rudy Kelly

by DougX on Jan 11, 2012 10:40 PM PST reply actions   1 recs

Murray is a great coach.

The team was supposed to grow out of him. It was designed to.

by Quisp on Jan 12, 2012 8:41 AM PST up reply actions  

Murray is a great coach.
The team was supposed to grow out of him. It was designed to.

This sentiment should be a prominent sticky on every Kings blog β€” especially LAKI β€”at least through the end of this season. I’ve stopped looking at the comments at LAKI because the pointless Murray-bashing was just too much for me. The urge to start swinging a 2-handed clue stick at people’s heads (with to-hit and damage bonuses from Barbarian rage) was just too draining.

From everything I read about TM when he was hired, I could tell right away that he was supposed to be a transitional figure. The fact that he outlived his usefulness so quickly is actually a tribute to him. I don’t think it was necessarily wrong to give him the chance to prove that he could take the Kings through the next stage in their development, and when it became clear that it wasn’t working, I felt sad for him, not angry or disgusted at him. Ideally, he should have been let go in the off-season, or even better, allowed the dignity of just not having his contract renewed.

"I think you just outed yourself as Dean Lombardi. I knew it all along." β€” Rudy Kelly

by DougX on Jan 12, 2012 11:51 AM PST up reply actions  

Well said.

Are Teemu Selanne and Melanie Griffith Twins?

by USHA#17 on Jan 12, 2012 7:59 PM PST up reply actions  

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