NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: PENGUINS v DEVILS

May 21, 2001

Jaromir Jagr

JAROMIR JAGR: I don't pay attention to that. Getting ready for tomorrow. Try something else. It's not like I play with them before.

JAROMIR JAGR: No. A new combination.

JAROMIR JAGR: Well, there's probably some. You know, you've got 20 players. You tell me. Four games.

JAROMIR JAGR: Well, we didn't talk yet how we going to play. Probably going to do it tomorrow. You know, you just have to look for the next game. That's the key.

JAROMIR JAGR: Well, it's embarrassing. The last two games in a row, we didn't score a goal. You know, if we going to play good and we lose, that's not what we're looking for. It doesn't matter how you're going to play; you have to win.

JAROMIR JAGR: You know what, I don't think we are the worst skaters or in worse shapes. When you put 20 of our guys on the line and two of their guys on the line, I don't think we are going to be slower. You can say whatever you want, but I don't think so. You know, it's -- you just, this team build, working on something whole year, to be good in it, which, it look like they know exactly what they do on the ice. They know exactly one guy -- what's the other four guys going to do. I don't think we do.

JAROMIR JAGR: I'm not saying it's the coaching. I'm saying those guys play that style for long, long time.

JAROMIR JAGR: That's why it look everything faster because they don't have to wait for something to happen. You just know what's going to happen. That's why it look everything faster for them. For us, we have to wait and then react. They -- they react before something happen.

JAROMIR JAGR: I don't know why. I've got no answers for that. I'm not expert, but that's the way I see it. You know, in such a hard game like hockey, that's what makes a big difference.

JAROMIR JAGR: I don't know, just passing the puck around, you know. Maybe change some thing; we didn't do it before. We didn't score a goal on power play yet -- we did once, but the last two games, we score, it would help a lot if we could score a goal on power play. It's pretty tough to score even goal against New Jersey.

JAROMIR JAGR: Well, every comeback was different. I was on a team with different comebacks. I was -- comebacks and everybody said we are done, those four games before that we play awful, and, you know, we somehow get the first win and then we -- we play sometimes better than before. You know, I was -- all the comebacks, you know, we played, we were pretty close. It was pretty close games, but we just lost by one goal, just had the bad luck, and you knew if you stick with what you do, you have a chance to win.

JAROMIR JAGR: I don't know, it looks like last two years, we don't really find a way to beat New Jersey. They are the Stanley Cup champions, and, you know, last year they didn't lose a series yet. A lot of teams try. It's not easy, but, you know, I'm sure there is some way. There is some team who can beat them.

JAROMIR JAGR: I don't know. You've got to play some style. We're going to talk about it tomorrow, and it's going to be risky because you don't know if it is going to work or not. It look like we almost try everything and nothing works. But, you know, this might be the last game to try to.