Can momentum carry game-to-game in playoffs?

Darryl Sutter was asked Sunday how a team can maintain momentum in a playoff series.

"I think it’s an old, old story that you should just throw it in the fire and burn it," said Sutter, via LA Kings Insider. "There’s momentum only during games. There’s no momentum during series because teams are too close. It’s now when you go from 30-to-16, 16 teams can win the Stanley Cup…and that’s how close it is. There’s no momentum from game-to-game.

"I was asked after the other game, it was like that we had some sort of big brouhaha everybody was talking about because it looked like it was a physical game. Well, it wasn’t a very physical game two games ago, and everybody was worried how that would affect last night’s game. Well, the clock stops, the clock starts, and it picks out from there."

Source: Jon Rosen, LA Kings Insider