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.

(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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.