| Being Darryl Sutter |
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| Written by FRE | ||||||
| Tuesday, 02 February 2010 16:58 | ||||||
Calgary, AB (HO). "The Who" rises hauntingly out of the speakers of the small CD player in Darryl Sutter’s office. Behind the big oak desk sits the GM of the Calgary Flames, his dim lit room casting shadows on his face. Our meeting is reminiscent of meeting a Godfather of a crime ring or an overlord boss. We are quietly ushered in and shown our seat, no words are spoken for several minutes. We sit nervously, fidgeting with our notebook as we prepare to interview the evil genius or blatantly ignorant man who just orchestrated another series of blockbuster moves at the “NHL trade deadline” to hopefully shake up his woefully underperforming hockey team.  Sutter contemplates his next move Now Jokinen is again gone. Departing with him is former Norris candidate, defenseman Dion Phaneuf. In separate deals, both players, once considered future franchise players are off to other destinations as part of a team wide shakeup aimed again at making the Flames Stanley Cup favorites again. In their place, Sutter has obtained underachieving spare parts. It’s hard to follow his line of thinking, maybe it’s that he went the route of finding a superstar at the deadline and that failed miserably, so perhaps he is thinking, stocking his team with five or six guys with potential is the “can’t miss” solution. We can’t be sure and sitting in his stark office at the Flames NHL complex is intimidating to say the least. Sutter sits there for a few minutes, humming silently, staring off into space. He does not say a word. He has yet to acknowledge our presence. We are unsure that he is even going to offer a justification on his recent moves, especially his acquisition of Ales Kotalik from the Rangers for Mr. Jokinen, the bizarrest of his moves on this day, especially considering he made Jokinen suit up and play hockey last night, almost like a man on death row’s last meal. Flames fans feel they deserve an explanation, but we’re not sure Mr. Sutter believes he owes them one. Maybe this is just all part of his master plan to get Ilya Kolvachuk or maybe Sutter has just lost it, at this point, everybody has a theory. “No one knows what it's like, To be the bad man, To be the sad man, Behind blue eyes. No one knows what it's like, To be hated, To be fated, To telling only lies” The lyrics crackle from the darkness; we continue to sit in silence and wish that we had been sent to Dallas to interview the members of Westboro Baptist Church on the evils inherent in the sport of hockey. Yes, we still believe that Gary Bettman is Satan.
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