Sutter postgame quotes (June 9)

Darryl Sutter’s postgame thoughts…

(on now feeling extra pressure to win Game 6…)
SUTTER: “No. I still think we’ll digest tonight and travel. Expect it to be another game like tonight.”

(on what the Kings can do to beat Martin Brodeur…)
SUTTER: “Well, he’s played well, very well, the last two nights. You know, we’re probably saying what they said (after) Games 1 and 2, where we got breaks and now they did. That’s how even it is. We hit a couple posts again tonight, and you hope one goes off the post and in.”

(on the tight games in this series…)
SUTTER: “That’s pretty much it. I think if there’s anything, you’ve got to finish your opportunities. You’ve got to work to get them. You pretty much have to not give up more than one.”

(on the Kings’ good start…)
SUTTER: “I thought we had a really good first period, no question. They scored a goal on the offensive-zone (penalty). Marginal call with a puck that was not in danger, right? Other than that, we had a heck of a first period.”

(on where the pressure in the series is now…)
SUTTER: “I’d say I’m not sure what you mean there. Are you cheering for the Devils or for the Kings? So you’re cheering for the Devils. I’m going to say the pressure’s on them because they’re the home(-ice) team and they had a hundred‑some points, OK?”

(on it being natural to face a long series at some point…)
SUTTER: “I think that’s why they have seven‑game series, unless they change it to five or something. We don’t know about next year in the new agreement. Long series, that’s why they call it four out of seven.”

(on trying to finish scoring opportunities…)
SUTTER: “The only way to really look at it in the series is the first goal. Whoever scores the first goal, that’s the way it’s been. We scored the first goal in the first three. That tells you just really how close it is.”

(on his view on Bryce Salvador’s goal…)
SUTTER: “I think it was a screen. Didn’t see it. You want your winger to go through the shot and through the point. Starts on the other side of the ice. Really a soft wrister from the right side. We didn’t get one forward off on a change. He was tired. I’m sure if Jonathan (Quick) would have known that, he would have got a whistle. Puck comes around this side, winger’s got to go through the shot.