April 3 media availability: Darryl Sutter

On what he liked about the team’s defensive performance against Phoenix:
I think we were consistent. We’re not trying to shorten the bench, we’re trying to use everybody and give them an opportunity to see if they can play against certain players on the other team. We’ll see how that plays out here in the next handful of games. It’s not ‘last night’s game’ [or] any different than any other game.

On Willie Mitchell being nominated for the Masterton Trophy:
Willie and Robyn and Greener all do the same things for our team. I think they’re all good nominees.

On practicing quick transition and puck movement, and exhibiting it against Phoenix:
We were good on the trip…and I think when you don’t practice three or four of those older guys that you just alluded to, they forget how to do it. It’s not the young guys, it’s those older guys that revert back to the old style, and as much as you’re trying to get them rested and ready, you can’t let their detail, the way the game’s changed, slip. So basically when we’re doing that, it’s more for that. Clearly where it shows up is in guys that have to make the adjustment to how the game’s played now. We were really good at it on the road trip, and then the first game back, I think the guys just dug in and did it, and I think we weren’t as good against Minnesota, and it was better last night. It’s something unless you don’t have the skill set anymore, or you’re too stubborn to do it, you can do it.