NHL STANLEY CUP FINALS: SABRES v STARS

June 19, 1999

Stu Barnes

Derian Hatcher

Richard Matvichuk

Michael Peca

Darryl Shannon

Pat Verbeek

Jason Woolley

DERIAN HATCHER: Well, yeah, I think that period we pretty fortunate right now to be up 1-0. To be honest with you we have got to do better than that.

MICHAEL PECA: No, I don't think so. I think we have done a pretty good job in getting everybody involved; getting the "D" up. There were a couple of instances where we thought the "D" picked up a little bit. But it was kind of a fortunate break on their goal but we feel we are creating enough chances now that we are going to get some breaks off them.

DARRYL SHANNON: It wasn't too bad. I knew what to expect. I knew they were coming hard. It would be tough. Like you say, it has been a long time since I have played. Stayed out there trying to catch my breath.

DARRYL SHANNON: Not let them score, but play a simple game; keep the puck out of your end. Safe plays. Make safe plays; get it to the forwards and then they will take care of things.

DARRYL SHANNON: I think this is -- we faced this the same way we faced all the other ones; at least we tried to. It is a little more important if we don't get a win we are done, but we got to be positive, stay upbeat, and just keep pressing them.

PAT VERBEEK: They were really pressing up a lot, kind of got us on our heals, and we were missing the puck a lot. We had a lot of faceoffs in our zone and they were really able to keep the pressure on. They were really pinching our defense quite a bit and so we are going to have to counteract this period.

PAT VERBEEK: Well, We just have to get back to our aggressive game. We have been kind of not forechecking the way we normally do and we got to get back to that.

RICHARD MATVICHUK: We are playing for our life. We got 20 minutes. It can be any team's victory here. We have 20 minutes to push, push, push and that is what we are going to do. We are not going to sit back on our heals. We have got to go for it.

RICHARD MATVICHUK: I sure hope so. It has been a long Christmas Eve and we are going to do our best; see what happens.

STU BARNES: They are a great hockey club. We have to be at our absolute, absolute best to have any chance. Like I said, we are trying to go out and do our best.

STU BARNES: No, we haven't thought about that at all. All we are thinking about is getting this game and forcing Game 7.

JASON WOOLLEY: I tell you when you are out there you try and not to be -- not to be that guy not to make that mistake. But that is not the mindset. You have got to be going for it; you have got to push for it. We have our backs against the wall here. We have got to win this game, so, don't worry about mistakes; just go try to get the puck in; throw it at the net, you never know what happens in the third.

JASON WOOLLEY: I don't know if you change too much. I think you just keep going at them. We are always going to have a good high guy that is important here, but keep shooting, try to get those pucks through they do a real good job of blocking maybe one fake and try and find someone off the side of the net or something, we need a bounce here.

JASON WOOLLEY: I don't know who is going to get it as long as he is on our team, I don't care.

STU BARNES: I don't know if you change too much. I think you just keep going at them. Continuing to work hard and do our best and we are getting the chances; hopefully one will go for us.

STU BARNES: They do a great job in the neutral zone. They really clog it up and they are skilled players, so it makes it dangerous on turnovers so you got to be careful.

STU BARNES: Just keep playing hard; keep going it the best we can and give it our best.