Brent Sutter Game Quotations

I have to disagree with the Russian coach. We would not have changed our game plan if the Russians had scored one goal.

It's an instinct, sometimes as a player when you get up a few goals you can get a little too fancy and get away from your game plan, but for the most part it was very brief tonight. We kept the puck going ahead tonight. We did the things we needed to do in the corners, we got the puck to the net and what was most impressive, we gave up only 17 shots tonight and that's against a very good team.

That was a two-hour, 45-minute hockey game. There is always the assumption these rules were put in to make the game more entertaining, but that is not entertaining hockey. It's not something you want to see in the game. We can't let it dictate how we need to play, but it makes it difficult to coach.

The 24-hour rule is on for us with another big game coming up. We've won five of our last seven games and we have to keep it going.

It's been the talk of everybody outside our dressing room. This one game now means something because we've been able to accomplish our goals from then to now.

The bottom line is we have to win hockey games and we've got to be one goal or more better than our opposition to do that. Let's just make sure we're keeping pucks out of our own net.

We are not going to change our philosophy and the way we need to play. We have to stick to our game plan.

It would not have changed the way we played. We would not have changed our game plan if the Russians scored one goal.

Any time you go through two games as we have and against two very good opponents, and we get goaltending like we did, it's huge. It's always a confidence builder, and even more so when you have a young team.

If you get too caught up in what the opposition is going to do, it really affects the way you play. We're not going to change as far as our philosophy and the way we need to play. We play a certain way and we're going to play that way. We'll make some adjustments, but we have to stick to our game plan and our identity and the way we need to play. It has gotten us this far ? we're not going to go a different route.