Kings coach Darryl Sutter is nothing if not blunt. He said something that might offend a big corporate sponsor after a reporter, in the midst of a conversation about the improved diets of today’s players, pointed at the McDonald’s logo on the promotional signage hanging on a wall behind where the coach conducts his media interviews.

“I haven’t been in one of them since they cut off Alberta beef, and that was quite a few years ago, and I don’t even like standing besides it,” said a scowling Sutter, who spends his offseasons working on his family’s farm outside of Viking, Alberta.