Driving trucks and ranching with NHL legend and 'farm boy' Brian Sutter - The Globe and Mail
Until arriving at Brian Sutter’s ranch, I’d never heard of a Lewis Cattle Oiler. In photos: On the farm with Brian Sutter. This is one of many things learned from Sutter, a pro hockey legend, part of a family dynasty that saw six brothers from an Alberta farm make the NHL. A seventh brother, reputedly the best player of them all, stayed home to run the family farm. Heading across the Alberta plains in a pickup truck, it’s easy to see why Sutter and his brothers managed to collect six Stanley Cups. Sutter is gritty and humble, and his handshake is like a hydraulic vice – that’s what comes from a lifetime slinging hay bales and competing with the best hockey players in the world. Sutter is also a dyed-in-the-wool truck guy. He grew up on a ranch where the family car was a pickup truck, and he still uses a truck every day. Sutter has left his battered Dodge diesel back at the house so he can test-drive the new F-150. This is a state-of-the art truck, with an aluminum body, four-wheel drive, and a leather interior that would do justice to a Bentley. “It’s pretty fancy,” says Sutter as we roll through a barbed wire gate into a pasture that stretches as far as the eye can see. Once a humble work tool, the pickup is now a marketplace phenomenon – the F-150 is the best-selling vehicle in North America. Few buyers actually use their pickup trucks. Source: www.theglobeandmail.com
