NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: DEVILS v SENATORS

May 9, 2003

Martin Havlat

Marian Hossa

Patrick Lalime

PATRICK LALIME: Well, of course, I mean, I respect everything Martin did in the past. He's a great goaltender, did a lot for hockey, and myself I look at it as an opportunity, a chance out here. I just want to give my team a chance to win. I am going to focus on my job to do. I am sure he will do the same thing at his own end. I just want to have fun and keep that thing going.

PATRICK LALIME: Well, I think he has got a pretty good shot from what I remember in the regular season and every time we played him he likes to shoot, he likes to go high or low; I mean, doesn't matter as long as he gets an opportunity to fire the puck. Langenbrunner has been pretty hot as well. They have got some talents Elias, Nieuwendyk, Frisen; they work hard, they try to get open and get some good scoring chances. Got to be ready offensively.

MARIAN HOSSA: I think he is one of best goalies to handle the puck. We have to make sure that when we dump it in either we have to put it really far in the corner or put it around the board behind the net so he can't handle it. We have got to be careful because can make some wrong passes.

MARIAN HOSSA: I think like I said, he's one of the top goalies in my mind in the League and you know, we were successful against him, especially with that guy on my left, so I hope we're going to continue and we got a quick forward, so we can use that and keep shooting, make traffic in front of him I think we're going to be successful.

MARTIN HAVLAT: The season started 3-1, that was what happened and we start from 0-0, from tomorrow, and we'll see what is going to happen.

PATRICK LALIME: He played -- I played against him in major junior actually my first year. That was his last, and I didn't play that game but he was there and his name was -- he was a great goalie at the time in junior and since there, just been accumulated things, success. I think he's a winner. He's a battler, he likes to be there in big games. It will be a big game against him.

MARTIN HAVLAT: We are pretty good friends. We spend a lot of time in the summer, but I think our friendship is going to go away for the series. We'll see. We're not going to be friends on the ice.

MARIAN HOSSA: I think it's going to be physical, but also it's going to be really defensive series. I think there will be lots of goals, so you have to battle through the people and they got some big guys like Scott Stevens, so they got few of them like they can be really physical, but you also -- they got some forwards, big forwards, so I think it's going to be a little physical and I am expecting lots of defense.