"We wanted to play a more disciplined, patient game and I think we did that," Sutter said.
Before Simon and Donovan each scored their fifth goals, the play was almost a contraction -- no scoring, very few shots, but almost continuous end-to-end action highlighted by the Iginla-Lecavalier fight with about six minutes in.
"We didn't get a lot of shots in the first period, but we were very physical. That carried into the second," Iginla said. "... The fight is just part of the intensity out there; everybody knows what's on the line. The fight just kind of happened."
The up-and-down flow was a total reversal of last year's Mighty Ducks-Devils final, when both teams played mostly with extreme caution.
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