The Calgary Flames have signed head coach Darryl Sutter to a multi-year contract extension.
Sutter has a 65-36-11 record since returning to the Flames during the 2020-21 season when he was hired to replace Geoff Ward. The 64-year-old won the Jack Adams Award last season for the first time in his career.
The Flames missed the playoffs that season, but in the following full season under Sutter, mounted the largest season-to-season improvement of any NHL team in 2021-22 — capturing the sixth-best record in the NHL (50-21-11) and the Pacific Division title.
Sutter then oversaw the Flames through the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, before the team lost to the Edmonton Oilers in Round 2.
After winning Stanley Cups with the Los Angeles Kings in 2012 and 2014, Sutter was an adviser to the Anaheim Ducks coaching staff and appeared headed toward retiring as an NHL coach when he took the job with the Flames.
The Viking, Alta. native has also coached the Chicago Blackhawks and San Jose Sharks.
With files from The Canadian Press.
