NHL STANLEY CUP FINALS: CAPITALS v RED WINGS

June 8, 1998

Brian Bellows

BRIAN BELLOWS: Ottawa was supposed to be a very fast team, so is Buffalo and we were really matched up very well with all these fast teams. Something we actually talked about yesterday, couple of conversations we had in the afternoon and -- obviously some of our defensemen, the big guys, they are not as quick, but then again, you have got Phil Housley, Johansson on forward, again on "D" you have Gonchar which is a very fast guy and on forward we have probably three or four of the fastest guys in the League, so, I think if you want to talk about speed, that is something that our team definitely has.

BRIAN BELLOWS: I don't really care about being underdog. I look at it like I said earlier, any team that we faced (inaudible)