NHL STANLEY CUP FINALS: STARS v DEVILS

June 8, 2000

Larry Robinson

COACH ROBINSON: I thought Vlady played a great game. I don't know which game you were watching tonight, but I thought he played very, very well. He carried the puck a couple of times, made a couple of great plays that we should have deflected in, and it is unfortunate that he was on the ice for that one, but not much you can do. Modano tipped that one right out of the air, but Vlady has been playing very well.

COACH ROBINSON: The guys, they are down a little bit, but, you know, we do have a cushion here a little bit. It was a great game, you know. I mean, we hit 3 posts, Bobby Holik could have had like 6 goals himself. Alex had a break-a-way that could have went in. But Belfour stood on his head and played extremely well. So we should be disappointed because, you know, it could have been all over, but there is nothing you can do about it. We now have to go back there and win another game, that is all.

COACH ROBINSON: That is my job, so, we will work on that tomorrow. Got a two-and-a-half-hour flight, you know, to think about it. But they should -- I mean, it is natural to be down after a loss. So I won't expect them to be jumping up and down and all smiles.

COACH ROBINSON: Well, I think we are the fresher team anyway. With Modano playing about 75 minutes tonight, he probably played more than, you know, half of our team put together. Every second shift he was out there, so, I mean, he's not a young man anymore either, and they have got a lot of guys that played a lot of hockey. So I think with the way our guys play and the fact that we use more players than they do, it should be an advantage to us going back there.

COACH ROBINSON: That was great goaltending. Not that -- the stops that they made were of the spectacular kind, but any time it is a goaltender duel -- (inaudible) I was part of a goaltender duel; ended up 8-7, hopefully we won't get to see one of those.

COACH ROBINSON: That is the way it usually is in overtime, you either go a long time or it is over in the first five minutes. Not too often is there pretty goals that are scored. It is usually -- I told the guys before just be throwing pucks at the net and anything can happen. Watching the Colorado game where Matvichuk just threw it and Nieuwendyk tipped the puck, those are the type of goals that go in in overtime. So it is just unfortunate it went their way instead of our way, but I thought that they -- they were more concentrated on going to the net than we were. We had too many guys standing at the side and Belfour was getting to see too many of the shots.