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On The Farm With Brent Sutter
by Paul on 07/26/09 at 10:09 AM ET
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from Eric Francis of the Calgary Sun,
Turning off the gravel range road upon reaching the Sutter family mailbox, the first thing you’re greeted by are a pair of donkeys the kids gave Brent Sutter one Father’s Day.
Winding your way up along a tree-lined driveway he had paved using bonus money from his first year in Chicago, you soon approach impeccably kept garden beds that soften the family homestead he longed to return to each of the last two winters.
After parking amidst the handful of cars driven by wife Connie, daughter Brooke and his two sons, you see a sturdy pickup truck with a suitcase in the passenger seat—a clear indication which vehicle the well-traveled Flames coach uses.
It’s Sunday morning and aside from a gentle breeze ruffling the trees, all is quiet, including a 10-year-old German Shepherd named Dakota, which is sleeping next to a cowboy boot-shaped planter on the farmhouse stoop.
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Eric Francis is the most awkward writer ever. How does this man have a journalism job in 2009?
Posted by jeff shantz from edmonton on 07/26/09 at 04:00 PM ET
Eric Francis wants to write poetry, However, poetry doesn’t pay the bills in a recession.
So, it’s on to the hockey beat he goes.
Posted by Red Winger from Sault Ste. Marie on 07/26/09 at 05:05 PM ET
Francis and Bruce Dowbiggin...2 of the worst.
Posted by Jim Shorts from the ghetto's of Guam on 07/27/09 at 01:15 AM ET
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