Former Calgary Flames coach Darryl Sutter sees parallels in the values he was raised with on the family farm near Viking, Alta., and the values he and his brothers took into the NHL. “It’s almost right on the same road, the things that we did and the things that we believed in and the things that we still believe in,” Sutter told CTV News. In Sutter’s new book — The Code of the West: Lessons from the Ranch and the Rink — he outlines the ideas that governed success on the farm and in hockey. Sutter continues to manage the family farm where he and his brothers once worked on their hockey skills in a hayloft. “I lived in big cities — Chicago, Calgary, L.A., San Jose — but you always came home,” Sutter said. “That was the great part about coaching in Calgary because it was Alberta. That was huge for me to come back. It gives me shivers to talk about it.” Don’t expect trash talk from Sutter about hockey personalities in his book. He praises many former players and colleagues, among them Flames former captain and all-time leading scorer, Jarome Iginla. “He was such a great ambassador and a great person, and I think it was easy for teammates to get in line with him,” Sutter said.
