Darryl Sutter
Darryl Sutter
Darryl John Sutteris a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League. He is one of seven Sutter brothers, six of whom made the NHL; all but Rich and Garyworked alongside Darryl in some capacity during Darryl Sutter's tenure with the Calgary Flames. Sutter has also coached for the San Jose Sharks and the Chicago Blackhawks, the latter with which he spent his entire...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth19 April 1958
CityViking, Canada
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The top end of our team is not playing very well right now. There is a focus or purpose issue with some of our top players right now and its affecting our ability to play 60 minutes.
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I don't think you can single out one single player. It was about 26 minutes of special teams -- that's where the game was won and lost.
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Both teams have come a long ways in terms of trying to get their organizations back to respectability. If they ever had the opportunity to play each other, it means that they've come a long ways.
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For a team that's not a high-scoring team, our power play scores lots of big goals, goals that are at pivotal times.
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We're being totally dominated in our own end. Hopefully it's good for our team to get dominated by two teams that are clearly better than us on back-to-back nights because it's clearly evident that our top players, our leadership group, have to take charge of the performances of the group.
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You look where this team is at and pro-rate it out, you'd be quite surprised with how well this team is doing, considering all the problems we have. Continue the pace. Considering everything this team has been faced with ... I give our team a lot of credit.
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You want 10 out of 16 points (against a divisional rival) -- don't ask for much more. Anyone who asks for more really doesn't understand the whole concept. These teams are all so close.
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Officially, in March, it's a lower-body injury. We're going to do the same thing that 29 other teams do now. When you guys ask about an injury, instead of me being so honest with you, all you'll hear now is that he's got a lower-body injury.
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He makes our team much tougher to play against and he knows what it takes to win.
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Their penalty killing in this building is really, really good. They're probably the most aggressive penalty-killing team we've faced. That means you have to get an ugly goal, just like they did.
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I look at Edmonton and Calgary and both teams have gone a long way towards getting back towards respectability. It would mean they've both come a long way.
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If you can get 10 points out of every team in your division then you have a chance to make the playoffs.
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He's made that team on his performance over the last two seasons, not two weeks. The 19-year-olds are the difference in that tournament, always.
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You can review and play the tape. Both teams are dead even. Look at the series. First game is an overtime game and we won. The second game is 4-3, a one-goal game. The third game was 3-2 going in to the third period. (Thursday) night, same thing, it's an overtime game. It's a fine line.