The Moment Brent Sutter Quit on his Team

I had hoped that a few days and a shootout win over Minnesota might calm me down. It hasn’t. Wednesday’s 7-2 loss to the Canucks was a shameful display that can’t, and shouldn’t, be forgotten. It laid bare the ugly truths of this dysfunctional Flames team – and provided all the evidence we need for why the coach must be fired.

It was, simply, a disgrace. A slap in the face to all Flames fans. It their own building, the Flames just bent over and took it, good and hard. They just gave up. It was pathetic.

I’ve had it. I could live with a team that’s awfuln but this is much worse – they’re quitters. They get pushed around in their own rink and they can’t be bothered to fight back. 19,000 paying customers in their house and that’s how they treat their own fans. Total crap.

But who was at the front of the giving-up line? The idiot coach.

The defining moment of Brent Sutter’s miserable tenure behind the Flames bench may well have come in the third period of this farce, when he sent four defencemen over the boards on a POWER PLAY when it was 5-2. That’s about as clear a signal as he could have sent to his players that he had not only given up on the game, but on THEM – he pretty much told his players that he was more interested in screwing with them than winning. The players, who no doubt are tired of Sutter’s relentless bullying and simplistic mind games, clearly took notice – and gave him a collective middle finger in response, tanking the rest of the game. .

Fire him. I’ve had it. Fire him. He’s lost it. Enough of the stupidity. That wasn’t just a loss, that was a team that quit on a coach who quit on them. It’s over. Fire him.

And his older brother can leave town on the same bus.