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.

We have six key guys and our six play well every night.

He'll probably be our top offensive center.

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.

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.

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.

He's a highly touted young man.

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.

(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.