it's not about a one-shot speech to fire the team up. it's about the ongoing way the coaches and veteran guys communicate with the team and further its development.

i have to say that--when you can understand what the fuck he is saying--darryl sutter is a master of that. he seems to know exactly what buttons to push. he's got his own way of encouraging, sometimes he'll get pissed (and it sounds funny) and a lot of times he will fuck with guys, say very disparaging and sarcastic things quietly. he'll also be honest with guys. he once told martin gelinas that he was stinking up the joint so bad that he only had a spot in the lineup because they had no other left wings. gelinas went on to score the series-clinching goals in all three rounds and had what would have been the stanley cup clinching goal disallowed on review.