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Darryl Sutter wont stop talking. This isnt an oxymoron. Or a dream sequence in another TSN Films skit. This is truth. On a sunny evening on the boardwalk of Manhattan Beach, California, the coach of two of the last three Stanley Cup champions is sharing his views on, in no particular order: - Brothers (Ive played on a team my whole life, not from making a team...I was born into a team.) - Criminal Minds (I love that show. Weve gotten to meet some of the actors and actresses. Its pretty cool.) - Eliminating the penalty box (Why not have them sit on the bench and sell the best six seats in the house?) - Yoga (I put it in our training twice this year...so thats a big move right there. But no, Im not doing it.) - Literature (Ive spent a lot of time alone in my life. I could read a book a night...Canadian history, American history, and anything to do with the Old West.) - His breakout role in TSNs The Panel Hangover (Dreger was the best though. He nailed it.) That guy you see on TV? The one with the semi-permanent scowl who can do an entire post game new conference in 25 words or less? This is not that guy. Ive always enjoyed talking one-on-one with people, Sutter says. I just dont like talking after games. We all saw what happened on the ice. I dont have much to add. Most questions you can answer with yes, no...maybe. So I dont want to go much beyond that. That Darryl - post-game Darryl - is a nightmare for reporters on deadline starving for a usable quote. But its a dream for those of us who love theatre of the absurd. That includes L.A. Kings players, who often turn on their coachs podium performances in the dressing room to watch them live. Its their favourite show. We do get a big kick out of it, laughs Anze Kopitar. Though it depends on how we played. Some nights are less funny than others. Sutter addresses almost every post-game question literallya€| Reporter: Coach, what was the difference tonight? Sutter: One goal. ...And avoids giving any useful dressing room insight at all cost. Reporter: What did you say to your team after the game? Sutter: Fly at 11. For our TV feature on Sutter for TSN, we edited together a bunch of random post-game answers and showed them to his players - a segment we call Darryl Sutter - Win or Loss? (It really should be picked up by The Game Show Network and hosted by Pat Sajak. Or maybe Travis Zajac.) The players had to guess if the Sutter comments came after wins or losses. Most failed. And miserably. Only Matt Greene nailed every one - hes a Sutter savant. I just dont understand why people keep trying to ask him questions, Greene says. I mean, you get the same answers every time. Just cut your losses. The endless monosyllabic answers are why one columnist dubbed last springs Kings-Ducks/Boudreau-Sutter coaching match-up as, Gabby vs. Crabby. And if thats the only Darryl you see (which it is for most), thats fair. For years, when he was general manager and/or head coach of the Calgary Flames, our interviews on the stage at the NHL Draft would be dislocated elbow-painful. He was the one guy I thought might actually Patrick Swayze/Roadhouse my throat when he didnt like a question. Which was pretty much every question. Bob McKenzie would get giddy every year waiting for those two minutes, when Darryl would eye-murder me on the draft stage. Around Year 3 of our stage (cage) matches, he got up at the end of the interview (after Id thrown to commercial), smiled and punched me so hard in the shoulder it buckled me. This would become an annual ritual. I contemplated becoming the first TV host to wear shoulder pads underneath my jacket (not the suit type for guys with bony shoulders...the actual hockey kind). Still, I took this abuse as some warped Sutter sign of affection. Or tolerance at least. Im never giving you a thing kid, but I understand you have to ask. After that, any time Id see him away from the stage or the podium, away from the media masses, hed smile and chat like we were on the same bowling team (which would be an AWESOME sitcom premise). And that is the other Darryl. The guy who tells the Kings PR man to let a TV crew into his house three hours before hell be home. Help yourself to whatever you need, he said. When he does arrive, he answers a half-hours worth of questions and then shows the crew around his neighbourhood (Manhattan Beach is a ridiculously gorgeous little beach town a half hour from Staples Centre. Most of the Kings live there and Sutter rents a small house a block from the beach.). Then as the crew is packing up, he insists they all come out with him for a beer. Which turns into three. And dinner. Four hours later, Sutter is still talking, discussing alfalfa crops with the freelance cameraman. Hollywood loves the fish out of water story and when the old-school Alberta farmer moved there to take the Kings job in early 2012, it wrote like one. I think I was in the barn...I wasnt shoveling s---, I remember that, but I had that day, he said of getting the call from Kings general manager Dean Lombardi. For a town used to winning championships with Zen Master Phil Jackson, this was...err...going to be a bit different. But Sutter chuckles at those who thought hed be a misfit in Tinseltown. They obviously didnt do their homework, he says. In fact, Los Angeles had been on a very short list of three teams that he would have left the farm to coach again (Toronto was one of the two others). Theres a misconception about playing in Los Angeles, he explains. We play hockey in Los Angeles, but we live in Manhattan Beach which is basically a small town. Its awesome - You can leave the rink and even at night after a game, you can be one minute to the ocean and walk a mile to one of the piers and back. And its game over, you can start thinking about tomorrow. Which is what he started doing, just days after winning that second Stanley Cup back in June. Thinking about the 82 tomorrows ahead this season. And possibly a couple months more worth in the spring. Something he believes is a very real possibility with this team. This old-school, hard-ass coach now speaks of his players like a proud father. The best part of being with the Los Angeles Kings is being able to coach this group, he says. It gives me shivers to talk about because they are such an awesome group of athletes that know how to handle...(long Sutter pause)...life. (Another pause)...And its cool to see. Thats as close to mushy as youll ever hear a Sutter get. Particularly this Sutter. He says those words about his team and then for a moment, hes silent. 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Letestu redirected Jack Johnsons shot from the point with 2:38 left, lifting the Blue Jackets past the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-2 on Monday night. The goal was initially credited to James Wisniewski immediately after the game. Johnson, celebrating his 27th birthday, thought he had the winner until the goal was changed long after the teams had left the ice. Letestu said the crowd, that was so exuberant during the Blue Jackets rally in the second half of last season, had a hand in carrying the club. "It was especially loud coming down the stretch," said Letestu, who has four goals in five games after netting only one before then. "When we got that last power play, (the fans) could sense it, too, that we were close. Maybe they willed us on to score that one. "It was rockin out there." It was the Blue Jackets season-high fourth win in a row. There were plenty of others in the spotlight before Letestus winner. Nathan Horton scored his 200th NHL goal, also during a third-period power play, and Ryan Johansen scored for Columbus, which is 5-1 in the new year. Sergei Bobrovsky had 26 saves. "We showed some character coming back," said Horton, a free-agent signing from Boston last summer who missed the first 40 games for his new team while recovering from shoulder surgery. "Thats what we needed when we needed it most." Tampa Bay had been 17-1 when leading after two periods. The Blue Jackets had a man advantage for the sixth time after Tyler Johnson was called for hooking with 3:28 remaining. Just 50 seconds later, Wisniewski fed Johnson for a hard shot that Letestu deflected past Anders Lindback through heavy traffic in front. "They found a lane tthere," said Lindback, who had 25 saves.dddddddddddd Columbus, 2 for 6 with a man advantage, dominated the rest of the way. Wisniewski barely missed on an empty-net attempt with a minute left, and Matt Calvert and Brandon Dubinsky helped to keep the puck away from the hard-pressing Lightning. "We got our game back," coach Todd Richards said about the step up after a dismal second period. "To me, thats a sign of the character youre looking for from your group. Teams are going to make pushes, get some momentum in the game ... but I like the way we went after it in the third period." Alex Killorn and Victor Hedman had goals for Tampa Bay, and Lindback stopped 25 shots. "Ultimately, we had way too many penalties," Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. "It turned into a special-teams game, and their special teams were better than ours." Columbus tied it at 2 at 3:09 of the third when Horton wristed a rising shot from the top of the left circle just inside the far post. The power-play tally was his second goal for Columbus after notching 142 in six seasons with Florida and 56 in three years with the Bruins. Johnson didnt end up with the winner but did have two assists. "It felt nice to have a comeback win on the birthday," he said. "I can rest easy a little bit more tonight." NOTES: Columbus RW Cam Atkinson had a three-game goal streak end. C Boone Jenner had scored in two straight. ... Tampa Bay C Steven Stamkos missed his 29th game (broken right leg). The Lightning fell to 15-10-4 without him. ... The last time the teams met, the Blue Jackets won 1-0 when Bobrovsky stopped all 18 shots he faced before leaving with a strained groin that would sideline him for a month. ... The Lightning played the second of a three-game road trip that ends Tuesday at New York. The Blue Jackets opened a span in which they will play five of six at home. ' ' '