NHL STANLEY CUP FINALS: DEVILS v AVALANCHE

May 31, 2001

Rob Blake

Ray Bourque

Dan Hinote

RAY BOURQUE: Well, I know we are two games away, and we are one step closer but we got a lot of work left. We got to go out and go after like we did tonight and if we do that, I think we are giving ourselves a chance.

RAY BOURQUE: It was a huge goal. Patrick came up with some big saves. I thought the second period was our best, we went after him, got a powerplay at the end of the third and really came out at the end of the second, I mean came out beginning of the third cashed in and grabbed the lead and after that, that third goal was a huge goal for us. Gave us a two-goal cushion and allowed us to go out there and if we didn't make a mistake, you know we had those two goals and we played real hard. For me, that goal was awesome.

RAY BOURQUE: It has been awhile. I think it has been since 1990 and I mentioned that to a couple of guys and you know, it turned out I got one tonight. It was a big one, but you know, it was a great team effort and that's what we need to do is go out there and play the way we did tonight and killed off some big penalties in the first and really went after it in the second. For me, yeah, I could say it was probably the biggest goal I have scored.

DAN HINOTE: 1990 was a while ago, I wasn't too worried about the NHL at that point. But tonight I got to give all the credit to my linemates and you know, it was a great, great passing by them. I think Rob Blake blocked a shot, came to me, I passed it over to Drury, made a great Pass over to Nieminen who had a lot of speed coming in, then he made a great pass to me, I had open net. All I had to do was put it in. So I had the easy part.

RAY BOURQUE: Well, it's great support that I know I am getting in Boston and Montreal. And a lot of places, I think, if it does happen, it's a great story. ^it is ^ is it something I have been chasing for a long time, but you know, I think a lot of people know why I made the move is to put myself in this situation and now I am and I think a lot of people are happy for me. But you know, I know I got a big job to do and it's a long way from being over. So I realize all that and the support is nice, I have got to say that.

RAY BOURQUE: You don't know nothing, you just make the call and you hope you get lucky. You know, what do you got to lose?

ROB BLAKE: I don't know if you could tell just yet, three games into the series I mean, we got to limit their space and their time with the puck as much as possible. If that ends up frustrating them all the better for us.

RAY BOURQUE: I think your job is never done. You go in trying to contain them. They got some great offense. They are deep in all four lines. It is a lot of hard work. You try to take their space and their time away like Rob said, and on the powerplay you got to do a terrific job because you know, they got some huge guys, really move the puck and really talented. So you know, I think we are doing a good job in our end and away from the puck and we really it's everybody. It's a unit out there. It is not only ^Patrick ^ Patrik and the "D". ^it is ^ is it forwards as well really doing a great job, and ^it is ^ is it stuff that we work on all year long and we have done pretty well. We just got to continue to do that.

ROB BLAKE: We never want to allow the opposition the opportunity to score on the powerplay especially teams in Playoffs is big, both powerplay and penalty killing. Penalty killing is a lot of hard work. ^it is ^ is it great having Patty there. He is going to make the saves but again we never want them to allow them to score ^definitely ^ Devil. We want to shut them down as much as possible.