Brent Sutter Quotes (34 Quotes)

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.

I just like his mindset, his attitude. Nothing seems to bother him and he's a got a little strut that goes with it.

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 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 am doing what I am doing for this year and I will worry about whatever happens later on. I don't want to get caught up in that.

I look at it as the most disappointing year in 23 years of being paid, ... To not make the playoffs is disgusting and embarrassing to me, and obviously changing that is my goal.

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.

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.

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.

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

They had an opportunity to review it and decided it was not worth reviewing. I'm fine with that.

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.

We're going to make mistakes, I know we are. But they will be corrected.

Maybe they'll play differently against us I don't know. I thought both teams (last night) were generally very trapping hockey teams and they waited for opportunities.

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.

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.

I never questioned that he'd do it. I'd seen him so many times this year do it and Justin was the guy everybody fed off.

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.

Obviously the team knows the importance of the game. Whether the kids get too high or too uptight ... we'll see what they're like during the day.

It's how we play as a team, the discipline in our own game.

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.

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.

I never questioned whether we could score enough goals or not. My biggest thing from the get-go was Can we be a solid enough team defensively to shut down our opposition

The players thought it was pretty gross because my leg was just black. I limped around until the end of January.

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.

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.

I haven't seen anything that's surprised me, ... I saw him a lot before we drafted him. He's an impressive young man and an impressive young player. He's got a long way to go, but he's going to play in the NHL for a long time one day.

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.

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.

Listen, this team we played (last night) played well. They're a big team and they can skate.

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.

I might be a stuck record on that, but our only focus right now, is to get ourselves ready for today. We'll worry about the second game when it comes.

It would not have changed the way we played. We would not have changed our game plan if the Russians scored one goal.