Brent Sutter
Brent Sutter
Brent Colin Sutteris a retired National Hockey Leagueplayer and former head coach of the New Jersey Devils and Calgary Flames. Selected by the New York Islanders 17th overall at the 1980 NHL Entry Draft, Sutter played over 1,000 games for the Islanders and Chicago Blackhawks during his 18-year career. He won the Stanley Cup twice with the Islanders and was an All-Star. He represented Canada on numerous occasions, winning the Canada Cup three times...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth10 June 1962
attention awareness bench cheating detail
We weren't cheating tonight. Our attention to detail was that much better. Our awareness was much better and our awareness on the bench was much better.
difference dropped hard played playing prior
Everyone, from our goaltender on out, played hard tonight. It was a big difference from the other night. Tonight, we played like we had been playing prior to Tuesday, when we dropped off a bit.
against ahead brief fancy few game gave goals good instinct kept needed net player puck shots tonight
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.
discipline
It's how we play as a team, the discipline in our own game.
certainly rally team
They certainly rally around him. They're certainly a different team with him in their lineup.
everybody everywhere heard since talk
It's been the talk with everybody since the beginning. The fans. The media. We've heard it with everybody we've seen, everywhere we've been.
accomplish dressing everybody game goals means outside talk
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.
dog mentality team
We really have to have a junkyard dog mentality and that's the way we have to play. I want us to be a very disciplined, committed, hard-working team and in your face.
We're going to make mistakes, I know we are. But they will be corrected.
change game philosophy stick
We are not going to change our philosophy and the way we need to play. We have to stick to our game plan.
build good hockey strategy
We are not going to build a whole strategy around him. Hey, we all know he is a very good hockey player. We think we have 22 very good hockey players.
decided fine opportunity review worth
They had an opportunity to review it and decided it was not worth reviewing. I'm fine with that.
challenged couple good junior others players program sitting stands
There were a couple of players who were more responsible about it than others and I challenged them. I told them, 'Buy into the program or you don't play and how embarrassing would that be if you're sitting in the stands at the world junior championship and you're a good player?
bottom games goal hockey keeping line opposition sure win
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.