NHL STANLEY CUP FINALS: CAPITALS v RED WINGS

June 15, 1998

Brian Bellows

BRIAN BELLOWS: One goal away each game. Play better each period, get in the game and we've just got to concentrate -- I know it sounds very simple, like a lot of cliches -- but just get that first period out of the way and keep going. You know what? It's not so much the effort. I think we're working hard. Sometimes you have to work a little smarter and maybe it's -- you know, let's forget about being so nervous and maybe sometimes I think we're respecting them too much. We need to just go out there and play hockey against them like we did in the second game.

BRIAN BELLOWS: I think we already have it because, let's face it, we've taken them down to the wire a couple of times and that makes a big difference. Last two games they had to come back for the second game, they had to come back and beat us and the last game we ended up tying out and they still had to overcome us. So they know it's very close.

BRIAN BELLOWS: I think we need to -- we've talked about it -- we have to play a little simpler. I think we're come in prepared to work, but sometimes being a little too fancy. We need to take a page from them. Even their superstars are getting the puck in deep and forechecking hard, and we need to do the same thing.

BRIAN BELLOWS: Like I said earlier, Ron will explain that one, not me.