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
good heard
Like I said, all we've heard is Dec. 31, Dec. 31, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, Canada-USA, Canada-USA. Now it's here. This is the game. This is the game. Now that's a good thing.
believe good
We all know (Malkin) is a very good player. Well, we believe we have 22 good players.
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.
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.
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?
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.
dressing good knew
In our dressing room, we knew we have good goaltending.
comparing form good identity kids stuck team within
I am not going to get into comparing one team to the other. I said from Day 1 this team will form its own identity and it will be good within itself. I think the kids have stuck on the program.
changed game plan russians
It would not have changed the way we played. We would not have changed our game plan if the Russians scored one goal.
assumption dictate difficult game hockey rules
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.
played team
Listen, this team we played (last night) played well. They're a big team and they can skate.
bother call decided fine looked opportunity review reviewing tape trust whether worth
It doesn't bother me at all. Whether you like it or not, it's irrelevant. The call was made and (the IIHF) had the opportunity to review it and they looked at the tape and decided it wasn't worth reviewing and I'm fine with that. I trust them on that.
amazing couple happened last points run saw talked
We've talked about things that have happened here in the past. When you get on a run it's pretty amazing what can happen. You saw what happened a couple of years ago when we got points in something like 22 of our last 23 games.
far playing
We got this far playing as a team.