October 6 practice quotes: Darryl Sutter

On the preseason:
I think we had a really good preseason in terms of what we wanted to do as a group, especially with the injured guys. Basically, our plan was to try and get guys into three in four games, and then some of the younger guys playing more, guys that maybe didn’t play as much last year or didn’t play as many minutes. So it worked out.

On not having enough roster spots to keep Adam Cracknell and Jeff Schultz:
Well, you do the math. It’s not that hard to figure out. I thought Adam had a really good camp. I think that Jeff got better as camp went on, but at the end of the day, there are only so many spots. You know what? Those kids, they’re still part of the team. That’s just the way it works. It’s not unlike every other team that’s doing the same thing sometime in the last three or four days. That’s the way it works.

On Jonathan Quick’s progress:
I don’t think it was “progress.” I think he was good from the start, and our plan was exactly what happened. He wanted to play…the whole second game in Colorado Springs, and I just thought with the altitude and all that, that I was just more concerned with the third period. So then he was fine with that, and he was good from the start. Our goalies – if you go right through our goalies – I mean, the three guys that we carried ‘til the end were all good in camp.

On whether he approaches Quick’s workload early in the season differently:
No, I wish Jonesy would’ve played one more game last year so he could’ve got his name on the [Jennings] Trophy, so that’s always on the back of my mind. It’s not Jonathan’s schedule, it’s making sure that Marty gets enough. [Reporter: Can you petition and ask to have that changed?] No, I think it’s not games played, I think it’s minutes, I think. You should check – it’s one or the other, and he was either one game or not enough minutes. I can’t remember the way it was. It’s too long ago. It seems like a long time ago.