Duane Sutter

Duane Sutter
Date of birth	March 16, 1960
place of birth	Viking , Alberta , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	wing
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1979 , 1st round, 17th position New York Islanders
Career stations
1976-1988	Red Deer Rustlers
1978-1979	Lethbridge Broncos
1979-1987	New York Islanders
1987-1990	Chicago Blackhawks

Duane Calvin Sutter (born March 16, 1960 in Viking , Alberta ) is a former Canadian ice hockey striker and coach and currently Director of Player Development for the Florida Panthers from the National Hockey League .

Life

Duane Sutter began his career in 1976 and played in his first two years mainly with the Red Deer Rustlers in the second-rate youth league Alberta Junior Hockey League , before he finally moved to the Western Hockey League for the Lethbridge Broncos in 1978 after six appearances in the previous seasons . Sutter showed very good performances and scored 50 goals and 75 assists in 71 games and also had physical toughness, which he proved with 212 penalty minutes. He was then selected by the New York Islanders in the first round of the 1979 NHL Entry Draft at position 17.

At the beginning of the 1979/80 season he played for the time being with the Broncos in the WHL, but soon belonged to the NHL squad of the Islanders and helped them win the first Stanley Cup in the history of the franchise . Sutter established himself as a defensively playing striker in the NHL and won the Stanley Cup with the Islanders each time in the following three seasons and played an important role especially during the playoffs of the 1982/83 season when he scored nine goals in the 20 games and twelve more prepared. In 1984 he reached the Stanley Cup final for the fifth time in his fifth season, but this time the team failed at the Edmonton Oilers .

Duane Sutter played three more years for the New York Islanders before he was transferred to the Chicago Blackhawks in 1987 . In Chicago, his career slowly came to an end and Sutter could not achieve more than 20 points in any season, so he ended his active career in 1990.

But he stayed with the organization of the Blackhawks as a scout and observed young players in western Canada. In 1992 he took over the coaching position of the Medicine Hat Tigers in the WHL, where he looked after future NHL players such as Rob Niedermayer and Mike Rathje , but after the end of the WHL season in spring 1993 he left the team again and coached the Indianapolis Ice , the former IHL - farm team of the Chicago Blackhawks, for the time being for the last 16 season games, but then remained until 1995 in office.

In the summer of 1995 he was hired by the Florida Panthers as an assistant coach, who were able to move into the 1996 Stanley Cup final against the Colorado Avalanche . Sutter remained in the position until the summer of 1998 when he took over the position of Pro Scout with the Panthers. In late 2000, Sutter was appointed head coach of the Florida Panthers, but was replaced after a year after lack of success. He then worked as a scout and assistant trainer for six months before he was appointed Director of Player Development at the Panthers in the summer of 2002. In this position, Sutter is responsible for the training of the players, especially in the farm team, and oversees the development of all the young players belonging to the organization.

NHL player stats

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	11	731	139	203	342	1333
Playoffs	11	161	26th	32	58	405

Achievements and Awards

• Stanley Cup 1980, 1981, 1982 and 1983

family

Duane Sutter has six brothers, five of whom made it to the NHL. Darryl Sutter completed 406 games and scored 279 points, was General Manager of the Calgary Flames until the end of 2010 and coached several NHL teams. For the Islanders, Duane played with Brent , who won the Stanley Cup twice. Brent was used in 1111 games in the NHL and scored 829 points.

Brian Sutter played 779 games with 636 points for the St. Louis Blues , the player's shirt number 11 in his honor locked . He was the team captain for nine years. Since 1988 he has coached the Calgary Flames and the Boston Bruins, among others, and in 1991 was honored with the Jack Adams Award for the NHL's best coach.

Rich Sutter played 874 games in the NHL and scored 315 points. For a little over a year he played in Chicago under the direction of his brother Darryl and together with Brent. After his active career, he worked as a talent scout for the Minnesota Wild and the Phoenix Coyotes . His twin brother Ron Sutter was also trained by his brother Darryl in San Jose for a total of three years. Ron played 1,093 games in the NHL and was able to score 533 points. For a year he was team captain of the Philadelphia Flyers .

Several players from the second generation of the family also moved to the NHL. While Shaun Sutter , Brian's son, was selected by the Calgary Flames in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft , but never ran into the NHL, Brett Sutter , Darryl's son, Brandon Sutter , Brent's son, and Brody Sutter , the son of Duane, the leap into the highest league in North America. Moreover played Luke Sutter , son of Rich, also briefly in the professional sector, while Riley Sutter is active (1999 *), the son of Ron at youth level.

Web links

• Duane Sutter at hockeydb.com (English)