It seems that Lou gave permission to Sutter’s brother (the GM) to make this happen. Cannot say I understand any of this. Classy stuff by Lou to let the deserved vindictiveness not come into play. Man, I’d love to see the reaction of The Rock next time he (Brent) comes into town now.

Wow what a trader. I thought Brent was a better person than that but he proved New Jersey wrong.

One word: HYPOCRITE! He’s gonna get an earful when he comes back to Newark, whether or not he makes a valid reason behind his decision.

I don’t think Lou would have let Sutter talk and sign with Calgary unless they agreed upon some for of compensation beforehand with Darryl Sutter. And while this may not be the Blues this time around, I think Lou has a history of making sure he gets fairly compensated. Or at the very least hopefully all this mystery means that Lou has something up his sleeve. I just don’t see Lou allowing Sutter to set this sort of precedent without there being some sort of repercussions or something agreed upon beforehand. Forget how bad this makes Sutter look… If Lou just let’s Sutter go and gets nothing at all in return for the way it went down then it looks bad on the organization and honestly I think Louis too shrewd to allow something like that to happen.

So until there’s an official press conference and more details about this story come forwards I’m going to go about my business and delude myself that this “hold up” has something to do with there being some truth to Phaneuf being on the block, the Devils being interested and that magic word of “compensation”.

What about Dion Phaneuf??? Maybe he can come here in a deal. I know its unlikely but I just want to think about that for a while….

Yeah thats what I thought.

What really annoys me the most about this is the timing. Brent resigned after taking his sweet time making up his mind, leaving the team with less time to find a new coach before free agency. Then less than a month later, he joins a different team. That doesn’t sit well with me. Coaches are under contract too; imagine if a player tried to do that.

I agree. I mean if you want to go to another team wait it out another year when your contract is up. He had to lie about missing his family which is wrong by the way so he can just go to Calgary. He should’ve coached another year and then told Lou that he wants to be with his brother. It’s the right thing to do instead of lying to people just to get to coach somewhere else. Now we don’t have enough time to get a head coach by the draft and it hurt big time if we don’t have one by July 1st. Who wants to come to a team who loses coaches like there’s no tomorrow?
Thanks goes to Brent Sutter on this one………….