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
assuming carry
I'm assuming that's the way it's going to be from here on in. That's what we've been told. I'm assuming it's going to carry on like (Saturday) and I know that's what the IIHF wants, too.
against confidence games good time
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.
bones guys money stepped team three time took
I'm not making any bones about it: we have two or three guys who make a lot of money on this team, ... You know who they are and it's time they stepped up and took the team to another level.
affects caught certain change far game gotten identity opposition philosophy plan stick
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.
dressing good knew
In our dressing room, we knew we have good goaltending.
care deeply guidance guy involves job kick nicest pat provide
I'm not always going to be the nicest guy in the world, but I do care very deeply about my players. As a coach, your job is to provide guidance. Sometimes that involves a pat on the back and sometimes that involves a kick in the behind.
felt knew level needed
I knew that our level of play would get up to where it needed to be. I felt comfortable with it.
call kinda sitting wondering
I'm kinda sitting here wondering what is a call and what isn't now.
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.
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.
call far opportunity review suspension trust worth
The call was made. They had the opportunity to review it. As far as the IIHF was concerned, they didn't feel it was worth a suspension or worth a review. I trust them on that.
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.