Sutter: NHL is not about defense

LA Kings Insider has head coach Darryl Sutter's comments from Saturday about this series with the Chicago Blackhawks, which heads to Game 7 Sunday, being defined by offense - not defense.

"I think there’s more goals in this series than normally expected. Hasn’t been a whole lot of power plays. Big guys, Toews and Kopitar, are pretty well matched up against each other. They’ve both been held down. So I guess you’d have to go into the second layer, the defensemen are part of it, the next group of top players. That would be my take on it."

[Reporter: Safe to say you would rather go back to defense tomorrow?]

"You say defense. It’s an old adage. This league is not about defense, it’s about good checking and not turning the puck over. Teams that just play defense, they’ve been on the outside looking in on April 15.

"If you just take last night, goals were scored, goals in the third period, one was a power play goal, Drew’s goal, good offensive zone play, and Kane’s goal off the wall, that’s miss coverage on a defenseman. Duncan Keith’s goal was missed coverage. So little areas of a better player taking advantage of a lesser player."

Source: Jon Rosen, LA Kings Insider