Brent Sutter Game Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.