ot just about hockey.
Most National Hockey League
coaches are stoic.
When their emotions are
free falling on a rollercoaster, they look calm, cool and collected.
Sutter walks behind the Los
Angeles King bench, rarely ever smiling. He sighs, twirls his tongue in the
side of his mouth, raises his eyebrows, and generally looks like he could care
less about the spirited mayhem in front of him. When the Kings score, he
might smirk. But that’s it.When someone screws up, it’s the Sutter scowl, which
could easily be sold as a Halloween mask and scare anyone.
Come to think about it, do
farmers ever smile?
Perhaps it’s something we
all can learn — to be on an even keel, not getting too high and not getting too
low.
Just zone in on work to be
done. And so we come to today when Sutter wakes up after a 2-1 Game
7 win over the San Jose Sharks to advance to the third round of the Stanley Cup
final.He may crack a smile, but only for a second. Then, it’s back to
work. And that could very well be a trait of success.
