News Article: Stanley Cup final: Sutter’s taciturn demeanour hides generous heart: Arthur

[Hankerchief*]

Hey guys. Suggest you read this story that Bruce Arthur from the Toronto Star wrote. Not going to copy and paste the whole story so I suggest you take some time to read. Fantastic stuff. Darryl is a great human being.

The email came from a 25-year-old in New York; we’ll call him Brian. He enclosed a picture of his older brother, who we’ll call Henry. Henry is 27, and lives in Chicago. He has Down’s syndrome. In the picture he is looking off to the side but he is smiling, and Darryl Sutter’s arm is around him. Darryl is smiling, too.

Brian wasn’t looking for a story, and Henry doesn’t want to be famous, so their names have been changed. But Brian had just watched Sutter’s press conferences, with that plain Prairie voice and that unimpressed rubber face and the clipped short answers that are becoming famous. Brian saw people calling Sutter rude, or laughing, as if that was the measure of the man.

He knew it wasn’t, because his father once read an article that mentioned Sutter’s third child, Christopher, who has Down’s syndrome. The father read the piece aloud with Henry. Henry wrote Sutter a letter. Sutter was the coach of the San Jose Sharks.

Sutter wrote back by hand, on Sharks letterhead. When the Sharks came to Chicago, Brian and Henry and their father were invited to a morning skate, and Darryl met them in the stands. Not everyone knew how to speak to Henry. Darryl did.

http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/2014/06/10/stanley_cup_final_sutters_taciturn_demeanour_hides_generous_heart_arthur.html

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[Reclamation Project]

I always find it amusing when people call him a "bad person" or an "ass" because they've watched a couple interviews where he was brief or curt. Those same people are probably the quickest to judge everyone.

Sutter's a total class act with a heart of gold. Fantastic article.

 

[21Dog]

Thanks for posting that.

 

[DocWest]

That was a great article! I love it when you see Chris at the games.