Their top guys were all playing well. . . . Our top guys spent too much time in the (penalty) box.

He’ll probably be our top offensive center.

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.

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’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.

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.

It was almost a crash course. He’s not used to playing at this level ? and it’s not October, it’s April.

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.

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.

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.

We knew it would be a question mark of if he’d last.

He’s a highly touted young man.

(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.