“Nope,” says his brother Brian during Sutter’s combination Stanley Cup celebration/potluck supper earlier this month. The Sutter family, originally from Viking, Alberta, Canada, are one of the most famous families in the National Hockey League (NHL). Stop in front of a narrow driveway that leads back to a cluster of trees, barns and bales. “He’s just a normal farm boy, he’d rather talk about haying and cows than hockey,” Denton said. “I see people today, honest to goodness, I haven’t seen them for 40 years, but it’s like, oh yeah, you connect again, it’s very cool, very special.”. Liliana Carrillo’s unraveling over the last year alarmed people in her life. If Darryl is feeling sentimental — and this is the one place where those tough eyes grow soft — he might stop by the mural on 53rd Avenue, a colorful drawing of his entire family in hockey uniforms, scrawled across the last remaining original wall of the hockey arena where he grew up playing. “Darryl stayed on the family farm, which is what our father always wanted us to do,” Brian says. Over 18 seasons as an NHL head coach with Chicago, San Jose, Calgary and Los Angeles, Sutter boasts an overall record of 634-467-101-83. It might not be Hollywood, but it’s all Viking. A A. He glides easily among groups of friends wearing farm caps and others wearing golf shirts. Folks are asked to give a voluntary $5 donation to local charities, but there is no limit on his conversation time, the amount of photos he will take or autographs he will sign. There are no sponsors except for rink billboards promoting the likes of Lefsrud Seed, Kittle Farms, Viking Home Hardware. “You stand around me, I’ll keep holding this Cup, does that work?”. “What’s he going to do, rip into his team in that situation? Los Angeles Kings head coach Darryl Sutter raises the Stanley Cup after the Kings beat the New York Rangers in Game 5 of the NHL Stanley Cup Final series, in Los Angeles, Friday, June 13, 2014. Given his age, I thought he would rather go do ranch stuff, retire, and be with family. Their favorite line from this spring was when he responded to a question about his message to his team after its Game 6 loss to Chicago in the Western Conference finals. He has been named national sports columnist of the year eight times by the Associated Press, and twice by the Society of Professional Journalists and National Headliner Awards. The Sutter boys simply left their sticks there one day before leaving for professional hockey, and nobody has moved them since. The line is stretching outside the rink when he arrives and the flow of fans is steady throughout the morning. No more, no less. “It’s good to give it back, that’s why you do this, right?” Sutter says later. The Kings’ king is a farmer, dressed in checkered shirt and jeans shorts, clutching a cold Molson’s in his giant hand, leaning back in a rickety lawn chair, slipping off his suede loafers, smiling as bright as the Stanley Cup, which happens to be sitting on a card table back by the horses. Grace shows that Sutter feistiness by picking up the toys while saying, “I’d like to give whoever did this a whipping!”. It’s a peaceful thing.”. All the Sutter brothers are here. With a howl and growl and a giant Kings flag flapping above the hood, the Gator rumbles beyond the driveway and through the grassy backyard area back toward a red barn and temporary stage. That's why this seems like a desperate move on the owners part. Get the latest on L.A.'s teams in the daily Sports Report newsletter. “That let me know that all our years of hard work on this piece of land were not in vain,” Grace says. Sometimes the Sutter boys themselves would fly through those doors. He is the author of five books, including a collection of his columns entitled, “Plaschke: Good Sports, Spoil Sports, Foul Ball and Oddballs.” Plaschke is also a panelist on the popular ESPN daily talk show, “Around the Horn.” For his community service, he has been named Man of the Year by the Los Angeles Big Brothers/Big Sisters, and has received a Pursuit of Justice Award from the California Women’s Law Center. The signs read, “Stanley Cup Coming To Viking” and there are so few cars here, for two full days they remained unmoved. The Stanley Cup has made many grand entrances in its 122-year history, but surely few have been as loudly joyful as its latest trek into the Sutter farm. University of California admissions officers explain their decisions in a year of record applications that brought widespread heartbreak and some joy for high school seniors competing for spots. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times), Chris Sutter helps Trevor Lewis carry the Stanley Cup into Staples Center for the team’s rally on June 16. There are tears in the father’s eyes as he snaps the photo. It didn't take Sutter very long to give the boys some tough love with a bag skate only 35 minutes into practice. Wendy McMahon will bring a new style of management to CBS’ television stations group following the ouster of former stations chief Peter Dunn. Are the unhoused serving as guinea pigs for architect’s design experiments? Never would they want to be the first one to quit. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times), Coach Darryl Sutter taps the Stanley Cup as he addresses fans a the Kings’ Staples Center rally on June 16. The Calgary Flames fired head coach Geoff Ward on Thursday night, replacing him with former coach and two-time Stanley Cup champion Darryl Sutter. The wooden stick and attached puck stand guard in front of the doughnut and sandwich shop at the entrance of town. He’s a Canadian farmer who leaves his spread every winter for this little hockey job down south. Darryl Sutter is back as the Flames head coach and took part in his first on ice practice with the team. When the flow of friends seemingly finally ends, Sutter picks up the Cup and begins carrying it back to the truck when he is stopped by one last family, a father and three daughters. It is advertised on two cardboard signs stuck on the ground in the middle of the town’s two main intersections. “I saw the notice in town and I thought, by golly, we cannot miss this,” Edward Walter says. The population of Viking, a grassy speck in central Alberta, is 1,041 people, one giant hockey stick, and one giant puck. The red barn of his childhood is still here, and so is the cramped wooden hayloft where the Sutter brothers learned the game. Although Sutter is the new head coach, he decided it would be… It was called the Carena because it was built with money from a town car bingo. California community college enrollment plummets, putting some campuses at risk. Darryl is the only one to win it as a coach, but he’s famous around here not for what he did, but what he didn’t do. Wanda Sutter has been married with current L.A Kings coach Darryl Sutter for 33 years. With Sutter observing the NHL’s COVID-19 protocols and tending to business on his ranch in Viking, Alta., the Flames went … All the Viking neighbors are here. At the wheel is Sutter’s son Chris, who has Down syndrome and has become beloved by Kings fans for his nightly dances and flexes on the Staples Center scoreboard. With Sutter observing the NHL’s COVID-19 protocols and tending to business on his ranch in Viking, Alta., the Flames went 0-1-1 under assistant Ryan Huska this weekend. Our columnist visits L.A.'s new wave of shelter solutions. Mookie Betts’ walk-off catch saves day as Dodgers beat Padres, win eighth straight. Bill Plaschke has been an L.A. Times columnist since 1996. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times), Boys play hockey in the hayloft at the Viking, Alberta home of Kings Coach Darryl Sutter during a weekend party with the Stanley Cup. He is told that his mother was thankful he decided to stay, and he smiles. Hanging nearby is another piece of Darryl’s childhood art, a burlap painting of Tony Esposito. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times), Rich Sutter snaps a photo of his brother, Darryl Sutter during a weekend party celebrating the Stanley Cup. “You know how to get there?” Sutter asks a visitor. He places it on a folding table in the middle of the rink’s concrete floor. The right sandwich for 22 different hikes in L.A. A hike is a good excuse to eat a sandwich. This family was indeed how their culture was created. involved in it,” he says. For the next three hours, that’s the entire shebang. Mater Dei beat St. John Bosco 34-17 on the strength of 3 touchdown passes from freshman quarterback Elijah Brown to lay claim as the best in the state. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times), Darryl Sutter waves to fans from the top of a bus with his family during the Kings’ Stanley Cup victory parade through downtown Los Angeles on June 16. They had seven boys, six of whom played in the NHL. They don’t have TVs, but they all know Darryl. Two families from a nearby Hutterite colony show up in colorful garb. Oh, and then there’s Denton and Brandi Quattek with baby Cooper. He was happily living on his ranch in retirement. He stands alone next to it and invites townsfolk to walk up and have their picture taken with him. “He’s never left us, he’s never changed, he comes back and he’s just Darryl,” Roeleveld said. Mater Dei beats St. John Bosco for Trinity League title. Sutter and his six brothers grew up playing hockey together in this loft, now home to just the aging sticks they used and bent chicken wire that prevented pucks from flying out of the goals/doors. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times), Family and friends gather at Kings Coach Darryl Sutter’s cattle ranch in Viking. They were almost as entertaining as the games. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times), Kings Coach Darryl Sutter smiles at his Viking, Alberta ranch where neighbors and family gathered for a party with the Stanley Cup. READ MORE: Darryl Sutter has ‘unfinished enterprise’ in return to Calgary Flames With Sutter observing the NHL’s COVID-19 protocols and tending to enterprise on his ranch in Viking, Alta., the Flames went 0-1-1 underneath assistant Ryan Huska this weekend. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times), Darryl Sutter and one of his Viking, Alberta neighbors embrace for a photograph with the Stanley Cup at the Viking Carena sports complex. Understated, enduring, emotional and occasionally draped in hay. But his family moved to this spread when he was in elementary school, and it’s where his most vivid memories remain. Tiny houses and shipping containers may help homeless people in L.A. Are they humane? It’s just Darryl and the Cup, yet that’s more than enough for a town that loves him, and the crowds are overwhelming. The best man at Darryl’s wedding shows up. Make a right turn at a metal sign stuck in a rusted wagon, its wrought-iron letters distinct and startling. But the offense struggled behind makeshift lines. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times), Kalena Christenson comes to the rescue of her son, Walker, 4, who slips while trying to mount a mechanical horse with his sister, Harlee, 2, during a Stanley Cup party at the home of Kings Coach Darryl Sutter. “This is a tight group and, quite honestly, we haven’t had a wedding this summer,” he says. It is Darryl’s show, but, typically, it has seemingly has little to do with Darryl. As mentioned by Dreger, "if Darryl Sutter has any interest in leaving the ranch and returning to the NHL grind, he will be on the list of men the Oilers hope to talk to." (Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times), Alana Squiar leads one of Darryl Sutter’s horses from the corral as friends and family attend a Stanley Cup party at his ranch. That is not a quote you’ve heard in his infamously mumbled news conferences. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times), Dozens of fans and neighbors line up to get a photo with Kings Coach Darryl Sutter and the Stanley Cup at the Viking Carena Complex. He drapes his arm around shoulders and warmly pats backs. Chris stops the Gator, steps on the stage, and starts the party. The mayor shows up. High school football: Saturday’s results from across the Southland. Darryl spent his early childhood in a farmhouse down the road with no electricity or running water. Darryl Sutter is doused with cold water as he accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge during a weekend party with the Stanley Cup at his ranch in Viking, Alberta. Pretty sure ownership has a good relationship with the Sutter family and maybe asked Darryl for help personally. Dozens of family and friends whistle and cheer. “Because this is who he is.”. Somebody stuck a spray-painted wooden sign in the driveway informing everyone that this was a private party, but the line of parked cars along the adjoining gravel road eventually seems to stretch for a mile, and inside the farm are several trailers housing more Sutters and such. He’s up there on the right, sitting on the back porch of a tree-shrouded modern house, right next to his mother’s house, a few yards away from his childhood barn, the totality of his 56 years spread around him like a piece of Canadian prairie heaven. The road is bumpy, barren, stretching out from a town with no stoplights into a vast and desolate countryside blanketed in an interminable silence interrupted by the occasional chirping from a tree or rumbling of a train. Can money from Silicon Valley save low-cost housing in South L.A.. These days when Dean Lombardi speaks with Darryl Sutter, the former general manager is normally in the middle of a cattle run at his ranch in Idaho. He also led the Kings to Stanley Cup titles in 2012 and 2014. Sutter coached the Flames from 2002-06, guiding the franchise to the Stanley Cup in 2004 before losing in seven games to the Tampa Bay Lightning. USC got to perform in front of fans Saturday at the Coliseum in its spring game. “This life is blue collar, grass roots, straightforward, get it done, not a whole lot of B.S. “You have to understand, we have sort of a loose definition of family,” said brother Brian. Then he hangs out in town like any other local farmer, driving into the five-block main drag most days to pick up his mail at the Java Blossom florist/coffee shop run by the wife of best friend Kevin “Weasel” Squair, then maybe making a stop at the weathered bar next to the gas station for a beer and plate of wings. Several years ago, when Darryl decided he wanted to build a permanent home on this farm, his mother suggested several more picturesque sights in the far corners of the property. Sitting on his back porch late in on this Saturday afternoon, his Cup party headed toward an eventual late-night family gathering around a bonfire, a relaxed Sutter’s words come easier. A bus driver who used to be the mayor shows up. Darryl Sutter was plucked from a ranch midseason and now is one win from a Stanley Cup. On this day some of the grandchildren have left toys strewn across the carpet. That’s it. Images. He says the Stanley Cup isn’t about sports, but family. “Only it’s all Xs and O’s.”. Plaschke has appeared in a movie (“Ali”), a dramatic HBO series (“Luck”) and, in a crowning cultural moment he still does not quite understand, his name can be found in a rap song “Females Welcome” by Asher Roth. He didn’t leave. Once again the hockey world will be treated to the World's Greatest Post-game Press Conferences. Sutter coached the Flames from 2002-06, guiding the franchise to the Stanley Cup in 2004 before losing in seven games to the Tampa Bay Lightning. Darryl Sutter addresses the media in this file photo from May 26, 2009, back when he was general manager of the Calgary Flames. “This Stanley Cup is like our wedding.”. “Are you sure?”. He laughs at the young men trying to use a Frisbee to knock a beer bottle off a stake. Today the darkened space is filled with straw bits and bird droppings. “The way Darryl is, that was instilled in us from the day we were born,” said brother Duane. Darryl, one member of the famous Sutter family is more than anything a family man. Darryl watched his first game as the new official Flames’ head coach from his ranch 137 kilometres away in Viking. ... owns an 1,500 acre ranch just down the road from his parents. “We weren’t raised to be hockey players, we were raised to be farmers.”. There is nowhere to place the Cup for a photo, and it is growing heavy in his hands, yet he poses for one more photo. Center Andre Drummond had his best game for the Lakers in the defeat of Utah, making big defensive plays before helping seal the victory in overtime. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times), Darryl Sutter is doused with cold water as he accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge during a weekend party with the Stanley Cup at his ranch in Viking, Alberta. “This is the real Darryl.”. “Oh, and he really used to have nice curly hair.”. They are a young farm couple who remember looking up at their wedding and seeing Darryl sitting in the congregation. The concrete under his boots grows more unforgiving as time passes, yet he stands for the entire three hours, staying strong for a community that once was strong for him. “I wish more people could see him here,” says his wife, Wanda. She asks visitors to remove their shoes if they want to accompany her down into a basement that looks like a high school kid’s bedroom, with faded trophies and photos and mementos filling every wall. He doesn’t stand in a spotlight. This is not the Darryl Sutter who has been perceived as a distant and forbidding taskmaster while leading the Kings to two Stanley Cup championships in three years. Darryl Sutter's Ranch 5 of 6 If you were looking for the winning coach of the 2012 Stanley Cup in October you would have found Darryl Sutter at his ranch in Alberta, Canada. Sutter conducted his first practice with the team today since being hired to replace Geoff Ward, who was fired last Thursday night. In case you were wondering – and he was – “Plaschke” is rhymed with “Great Gatsby.”, UC explains admissions decisions in a record application year of much heartbreak, some joy. “When he said, ‘Fly at 11,” that was just perfect, that was pure Darryl,” Duane says. The couple live in Viking, Alberta in their 640-acre Sutter ranch. By now, the road to the heart of Hollywood’s hockey team having already led to the most surprising of places, the answers are clearly yes and no. He has been doing it from his Viking-area ranch, so there is no quarantine or travel time involved. Darryl stayed here, herds cattle here, drives a tractor here, works the farm like he works his hockey team. READ MORE: Darryl Sutter has ‘unfinished business’ in return to Calgary Flames. With Sutter observing the NHL’s COVID-19 protocols and tending to business on his ranch, the Flames went 0-1-1 under assistant Ryan Huska last weekend. That's why this seems like a desperate move on the owners part. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Darryl watched his first game as the new official Flames’ head coach from his ranch 137 kilometres away in Viking. The Season 2 debut of Black & White gives you an inside look at the off-season on the Sutter ranch in Viking, Alberta, Canada. “He’s as one-of-our-own as you can get,” she says. “Since I was a little boy, this is where I wanted to build a house ... in the rural communities,” he says. “I think Darryl Sutter has three loves in his life: his family, their ranch and winning hockey games. Sutter began his coaching career with the Chicago Blackhawks after his retirement, becoming an assistant coach for the 1987–88 season under head coach Bob Murdoch. You have to create and build that, you can’t just go and say it, otherwise everybody would do it.”. Darryl said no, he would build his house right next to hers. His answers are more than hilarious, they’re truthful.”. Given his age, I thought he would rather go do ranch stuff, retire, and be with family. He doesn’t give a speech. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times), A mural depicting the Sutter family stands near downtown Viking where the original Carena ice rink once stood. Two decades later, it is Chris who has become the star of the Stanley Cup show. Kedon Slovis and USC’s offense don’t show much in spring game at Coliseum. “Well, you think about it, seven boys ... we were raised almost like a team, we sort of lived it,” he said. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times), Stunned, but still standing, Darryl Sutter recoils after being doused with cold water as part of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. “People who aren’t from here sometimes ask me if I ever see Darryl,” says Debbie White, a longtime resident. Darryl Sutter was plucked from a ranch midseason and now is one win from a Stanley Cup. The culture of humility and unselfishness that he has fostered in the Kings is not a hockey strategy, it’s his life. Sutter’s other memories here are just across the yard from the barn, in his mother Grace’s home, where she has lived for 27 years. “What a gift,” says Darryl, talking not about the Cup, but his son. The door is opened into thick air cut by the twang of an accordion, laughter of children and the swatting of mosquitoes. Alberta on Aug. 16 to celebrate his second Stanley Cup victory. Darryl watched his first game as the new official Flames’ head coach from his ranch 137 kilometres away in Viking. The Cup arrived in Viking on a Friday evening and spent the night in the bedroom of Sutter’s 21-year-old son Chris. The Murdoch led Blackhawks finished with a record of 30–41–9 and lost in the division semi-finals against the St. Louis Blues four games to one. They would play floor hockey up there during the summer, with goals occurring when the puck flew out through an open door and dropped 10 feet down into a pasture. Darryl Sutter urges his guest to have a beer, makes certain he can find his way back into town, then turns away to look for the hummingbird. If you add in the seven calendar years Darryl Sutter moved upstairs to act as general manager of the franchise, it totals 20. “We were raised to be humble and work hard and, while you had an inner confidence, it wasn’t anything you boasted about.”. He says that, instead of taking him away from hockey, this farm actually constantly reconnects him with the game. This is not some intentionally constructed museum-type display. A sandwich improves every hike, and in L.A., you can almost always find one not far from the other. “Here,” he says to the girls, motioning them to his side. Sutter just smiles, shrugs, and keeps walking out to the SUV, where he carefully places the Cup in his its case, in the trunk, and helps strap it in for the second half of its tour. He stoops down to hug old women and raises his arms to lift smiling babies. The club announced him as the new head coach Friday. CBS combines news, TV stations group and taps new leaders after Times investigation. Kings Coach Darryl Sutter is never down on the farm Kings Coach Darryl Sutter smiles at his Viking, Alberta ranch where neighbors and family gathered for a party with the Stanley Cup. “One of us.”. “This is how we were raised and why we come back.”. CALGARY — Darryl Sutter is officially back as head coach of the Calgary Flames. Pretty sure ownership has a good relationship with the Sutter family and maybe asked Darryl for help personally. And this isn’t an interim, finish … (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times), Darryl Sutter raises his fist as he talks to Kings fans at a Staples Center rally following the team’s second Stanley Cup title. Mother unraveled in depression, QAnon-style conspiracies in months before she killed 3 kids. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times), Darryl Sutter and his son, Chris, watch a replay of the Kings’ championship run during a rally at Staples Center on June 16. The road to the heart of hockey’s greatest team is covered in gravel and clouded in dust. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times), Rich Sutter dons a Kings jersey as his brother Darryl Sutter waits to pose for a photo with him and the Stanley Cup during a party at his ranch. Then, on a steamy Saturday, it embarked on a daylong tour that mirrored the life of the man it was honoring. He is a coach that demands his players and team play to a specific identity. And I hope the Flames fans embrace Chris Sutter the way Kings fans did. Is a tiny house really a glorified toolshed? The Cup is strapped into the passenger seat of a Gator utility vehicle sitting in the Sutter driveway. There is no music. After a three-and-a-half year run as the Flames general manager, Sutter resigned before Christmas 2010, exactly eight years to the day after he joined the Flames as head coach. “I’m always like, well, um, I saw him yesterday.”. Follow Bill Plaschke on Twitter @billplaschke. At one point he sneaks around the back of the barn and allows friends to pour freezing water on him and the Cup as part of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, but he doesn’t advertise it. Despite some raised eyebrows, he tells her not to worry about changing clothes because, after all, she is among friends. But leaning against a wall in one corner, covered in cobwebs, there remains a handful of ancient hockey sticks. Wearing a polo shirt, faded jeans and scuffed boots, Sutter is clearly at home here. There is no video. Make a left on Range Road 120, bounce past Township Road 472, continue rattling through holes that shake tires and giant insects that splatter across windshields. The table has been folded up. He even takes time to hug a young local girl who showed up in a New York Rangers cap and jersey. “My son Darryl may be a man of few words, but what he says has meaning.”. Brent, Brian, Darryl, Duane, Rich and Ron combined to play nearly 5,000 games and win the Stanley Cup six times as players. “It was so hot up there, I think that’s why we all ended up being such skinny little hockey players,” recalls Darryl. A sculpted sign featuring the Darryl Sutter brand stands at the entrance to the Kings coach’s sprawling cattle ranch. Andre Drummond keeps the beat going for Lakers. “A hummingbird.”. These days when dean lombardi speaks with darryl sutter, the former general manager is normally in the middle of a cattle run at his ranch in idaho. His brothers joke about Sutter’s lack of verbosity at his famously short Kings news conferences. Several miles north of here, on a 3,000-acre farm, is where Louis and Grace Sutter raised one of the most accomplished families in sports history. He has been doing it from his Viking-area ranch, so there is no quarantine or travel time involved. “Welcome to Viking, Home of the Sutters” it reads. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) That is not a smile you’ve seen from his infamously stern game face. The event is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Sutter shows up 15 minutes early and hauls the 34 1/2-pound Cup from an SUV into the arena. Grass flattens and rocks spit as a car slowly crunches up the driveway and into a parking spot in a ditch. He is asked about the influence of the farm on his approach to the Kings, and he shrugs. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times), 18 “Look, shhh,” Darryl Sutter says in a loud whisper, pointing toward a buzz in grove of trees. “I do a lot of good hockey thinking out there by myself on the tractor,” he says. “‘I want to thank everyone for coming to celebrate the 2014 Stanley Cup champion L.A. Kings!” he shouts, and Bob Miller couldn’t have said it any better. “It clears everything in your head. 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