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
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I have to disagree with the Russian coach. We would not have changed our game plan if the Russians had scored one goal.
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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.
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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.
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He's a heart and soul guy and when you have a team that is perhaps lacking some experience at the national level, which obviously we are, you need a real strong character and real strong person mentally that's totally committed to the way we want to play. He's probably a huge reflection of myself.
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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.
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The players thought it was pretty gross because my leg was just black. I limped around until the end of January.
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We've got to get better and we will get better. That being said, our opponent was a tough opponent. At the end of a day, it's a win.
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We are not going to change our philosophy and the way we need to play. We have to stick to our game plan.
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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.
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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.
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I think what everyone underestimated about us was our skill level.
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I think a lot of people underestimated the skill on this hockey team. I had full confidence in this team and that if they stuck with the program they'd be successful.
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Listen, this team we played (last night) played well. They're a big team and they can skate.
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He's played on two world junior teams already, ... I certainly would expect if Sidney Crosby was here at Christmas we would be bringing him on our hockey team.