This may not be the right place to put this, but in terms of player management and temperment, Sutter might be a perfect coach. I competed for several years, as well as coached, and one thing my coach always taught me was, "Never high, never low." Maintaining even emotion and focus throughout good and bad times is critical to consistency. Check out this quote from Sutter, after a 14-5 goals f/a win streak:
On whether the team is playing its best hockey of the season:
You guys are basing it lots on goals because we’ve scored some goals lately. [Reporter: But you’re winning.] Well, Jeez, after the New Jersey game I thought the sky was falling. We’re getting close to accomplish what we want, so we want to get it. We’ve gone through a stretch here where we’re playing top teams or teams that are shutting down teams, and everybody’s different, so we’re just trying to adjust to that and not get away from our game. Again, it’s a stretch of the schedule that as a coach you have to manage it properly too, in terms of how you’re using guys out there. If somebody’s not pulling their weight, we’re not going to look very good, so to say that we’re playing better than at any point, I don’t think that. I think that maybe as a group we are, but I think that we have guys that have to raise their games substantially for us to go to another level there.
Guy is still calling out players after all of this.
Sutter is also the first guy to say his team played well after a rough game.
I think its easy to take him for granted, but he is a really good coach.
