(Iowa head coach) Dave Allison has been playing his four lines a lot more than me. I don't see fatigue as being a factor, but we'll see on Thursday. |
He'll probably be our top offensive center. |
He's a highly touted young man. |
I don't really mind the penalties but I don't like losing the rhythm. I like the rhythm from playing 5 on 5; we generate things then. Losing a man hurts our ebb and flow. |
It was almost a crash course. He's not used to playing at this level ? and it's not October, it's April. |
The question is, can we play hard and smart? And I thought we did a pretty good job tonight. There's so little difference between the teams that we have to play that way. |
Their top guys were all playing well. . . . Our top guys spent too much time in the (penalty) box. |
There was great emotion from both teams in the first period. The game was being called tighter tonight than (Game 3). But when you play like that, penalties will happen. |
They really do justice for him. It'll be hard to handle him. You can't touch and grab him anymore. He'll be having a heyday out here. |
This is a one goal-game series; I been saying that. The last game, the penalties hurt us because of that. They didn't tonight. |
We have six key guys and our six play well every night. |
We knew it would be a question mark of if he'd last. |
We've seen each other enough to know these games can go to either team on any night. It's been and will continue to be who executes and makes plays. |
What it comes down to is that the players decide the game in the end. It's different things on different nights; some nights it's the power play. |