NHL STANLEY CUP FINALS: SABRES v STARS

June 8, 1999

Stu Barnes

Wayne Primeau

Jason Woolley

JASON WOOLLEY: I didn't really get much chance to do anything the whole game; did a real good job of shutting the middle down. I just come off the bench so I think I snuck up on them a little bit. Curtis made a great pass to me in overtime; you just want to shoot. I got lucky, it went in. It was a great opportunity for our team here to go up 1-0.

JASON WOOLLEY: Well, I think we faced a lot of that this playoffs. I think we do a good job of not getting too down and just staying playing the way we played in the third period. I thought we played a real solid. We had a real -- I'd say pretty shaky first ten minutes but we have had a long layoff year and it has been tough. It is very hot out there and I don't think guys are too used to that. Let's not forget how nervous everyone was out there. So I think to see them -- they have scored big goals all year. I don't think it really caught us off guard. It was kind of an unfortunate guard. Pec got his stick in the front of the boards; he was in the right spot. That was a big goal for them.

JASON WOOLLEY: Well, I didn't know what -- I didn't really know it went in, to be honest with you. At first I think I shot through a screen there. I wasn't sure how to react to it. I was obviously very excited about what happened after I saw it go in. It is a big goal for our team and to put us up 1-0, it is a great feeling personally, but we are along way from done and we know that.

WAYNE PRIMEAU: For me, on the powerplay, my main job is just to create traffic and try and screen the goaltender. The guys were playing with the puck really well around the outside - great slot at net, rebound came to me, I was able to pop it home.

JASON WOOLLEY: We are very familiar with that. He has been doing that all season and all playoffs. Obviously he is a big part of our success. We feed off that. We need him to play like that for us to be successful. Gave us a chance to -- Sanderson could have put it away on a breakaway; had a real good chance there, but he came up with some big saves to hold us in there and gave us that chance to even it up.