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Calgary Flames' general manager Darryl Sutter addresses the media following the team's failure to make the playoffs, in Calgary, Monday, April 12, 2010. Sutter has stepped down as executive vice-president and general manager of the Flames. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
2010-12-28 14:30:00
CALGARY - Darryl Sutter is stepping down as executive vice-president and general manager of the Calgary Flames.
The NHL team says assistant GM Jay Feaster will serve as acting general manager.
Sutter was named general manager in April 2003, a few months after taking over as head coach.
He gave up his head coaching duties in July 2006 to focus on his front-office duties.
The Flames are fourth in the Northwest Division this season with 35 points.
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To be fair - he has done some awesome things for the Flames francise, but it is really time for a full overhaul. This means though that Ken King has to go too as he appears too small minded to oversee the changes this team needs. As to Brent, well - time for an exciting coach too who encourages exciting hockey.
about time imo...
what a mess feaster inherits. Got to think he has not other potential job prospects cause i think being a florida GM would be preferable to this mess.
I think the writing was probably on the wall when they brought Jay Feaster in to be his assistant GM.
I too think it is fair to say he was on the whole a decent GM, landing Kiprusoff in trade and the J-Bo signing spring to mind.
The bad stuff though is also pretty obvious; the first Jokinen trade that included our 1st, the cap killing trade for Staios, the refusal to find a pivot who could play with Iggy, etc.
I suspect King is as safe as can be in his role, and that Brent gets a pass till the end of the year when the Flames will either announce a new GM or that Feaster gets the job permanently. Its just unusual for a newly minted GM, especially one from within the organization, to gas a coach mid-season. B-Sutter will get a chance to save his job by getting the team into the playoffs, anything less and I'd say he is a dead man walking.
With the writing on the wall...one Sutter jumps, the other brother hopes to save his job by coaching not just the Flames into the playoffs but at least past one round...
I think he fluked kipper since he knew about him from his previous job.
The guy knows nothing about cap management at all and it shows. You remember when he picked up Jokinen and he left virtually zero cap room for the last 20 games and couldnt even dress a full roster the last week or so of the season and it cost them the 3rd seed in the west and an early playoff exit.
Getting Bouwmeester was nice but how many teams realistically offered as much money and length of contract as calgary did? Maybe edmonton and i doubt few other teams offered 7 mill a year for him.
Tossed Phaneuf under the bus and traded him for peanuts. With the money saved from the Phaneuf contract he quickly locked up a couple underperforming leafs for 3 mill a year each. If they handled this better i would imagine they could have found a decent center somewhere to trade Phaneuf for.
Instead of trading for jokinen he should have signed camalari to an extension. Their offense has been anemic since they let him walk.
If langkow wasnt dead they would be over the cap already this year. If he had cap room i imagine he would be knocking on Jersey's door for Rolston.
I bet Iggy crys himself to sleep at night when he remembers playing on the olympic teams and what it was like to have a real center to play with.
Yup
memories...
2002, iggy played with Mario
2010, iggy played with Crosby
And now...thud
James Mirtle of the Globe and Mail has a little piece that is run every year calculating the the run teams will need to be on to get into the playoffs. In the West it usually works out to 92 or so pts.
The Flames are sitting, as of December 30th, at 35pts with 37 games played. That means in the remaining 45 games the Flames will need to get 57pts or go 28-16-1 from here on in. That is a pretty steep hill to climb - far better to begin the deconstruction now. Trade Iggy and Kipper for what you can and work the bad contracts out of the system as quickly as you can. It is a long-haul process but the sooner it gets started the sooner the Flames can move back towards a hope-filled future.
Here are some trades Id try to make - assuming I can get the players involved to waive their NMCs;
--> LA: Iginla-R
--> Cgy: Simmonds-R, Schenn-C, 1st rnd pick
The above trade was rumoured to be in the works already, I figure now is as good a time as any to pull the trigger on it.
--> Pha: Kiprusoff-G, Backlund-C
--> Cgy: Briere-C/W, vanRiemsdyk-L
Briere is a useful skill forward with a large pricetag, and vanRiemsdyk is the kind if young talented player with size the Flames can build around. Backlund would fit better in Philly than here and Kipper gives them the legit high end goalie they have lacked since Pelle Lindberg.
Alternatively, if the Flyers will send us Carter instead of Briere and vanRiemsdyk I'd be just as happy.
--> SJ: Regehr-D
--> Cgy: Couture-C
SJ desperately needs a steady heavy minute defensive defenseman and with Couture, Thornton and Pavelski they have a pivot to spare. They also have the cap room to make it work.
Alternatively;
--> Wsh: Regehr (or Kipper)
--> Cgy: Varlamov-G + Carlson-D, or straight up for
Green-D
Wsh needs a better shutdown guy on D or a goalie. Green is probably possible because of his contract situation. They will want Cgy to take Semin, but I think we should resist that temptation.
Thoughts?
Oh dear, Cam. This is going to be particularly painful for you but none of the trades you propose will come to pass because, well, Brian Sutter is not the GM on the other side.
Iginla is the biggest prize but you do not get a package as big as you propose. Simmonds, prospect and a pick is a possible package but it won't be Schenn (I had previously proposed Moller).
Couture is not on the table from the Sharks for any package Calgary could cobble together (including Iggy) and Regher is not the player he was. Sorry, father time has caught up with him.
Kipper is tempting to think he would garner a lot of value but I think it will be distressing to see how little he will be able to bring in. 2nd round and a prospect is the best that can be hoped for. Again, distressing but true.
It is a buyers market out there for goalies.
I heard a few months ago LA offered hickey, schenn and a first for Iggy which the flames probably should have jumped on. Outside of LA i dont know if any other contender can fit him in under the cap. Also he has a no-trade clause.
I dont know what they can realistically get for Kipper. He is good but no contender really has the cap room to fit him in. With Chicago winning the cup without a real goalie it seems the goalie market is at an all time low. Nabokov and Vokoun will probably be more attractive options for teams like philly and washington.
Regehr will probably garner a late 1st rd pick at the trade deadline. I dont think Bouwmeester is worth anything with his giant contract either.
Given the return on Kovalchuk, a player who was unrestricted, soft, and with no track record for winning, there is no doubt in my mind that Calgary can command; a current roster player+high end prospect+1st for Iggy.
In the case if Regehr there is a premium for top 4 D-men right now with several contending teams looking for them (SJ, Dal, NYR, Pha, Wsh, Bos, etc.), and given the paucity of available players vs. demand Regehr's value is not going to be higher.
The Kipper situation is as you say more complicated. But, Nabakov has to clear waivers before anyone can sign him (the Reijo Ruotsalainen Rule) which means that for Wsh to sign him to a reasonable contract he would be snapped up by any lower ranked team with cap space and a goalie need.
Dealing a Regehr for a pick alone won't work because of the cap, and some salary will have to be heading back to us.
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