NHL STANLEY CUP FINALS: DEVILS v AVALANCHE

June 4, 2001

Martin Brodeur

Sergei Brylin

Scott Stevens

SCOTT STEVENS: Well, it is good. He has been playing the defensive role the whole Playoffs pretty much, so he has that responsibility and he is doing a great job, so it worked out great. We had a good game and Bobby did a good job like he's always been doing the whole Playoffs.

MARTIN BRODEUR: Definitely. I think it was a timely save. I tried to contribute somehow. This one -- we had a little breakdown there and I was able to make the save and you know, able to keep the puck long enough for the referee to make a whistle so the play was dead. But definitely it was a good chance against.

MARTY BRODEUR: I don't know. It is just a game. (Laughs) I mean, I really enjoyed the situation that we are in right now and that we were this morning. I felt that we played really well in Game 4 and we are going to bring this into Game 5 and we did. It is important to stay relaxed. There is so much pressure coming from everywhere. If you start putting pressure on yourself it is going to get harder and harder so try and stay as positive and happy as much as I can.

MARTIN BRODEUR: These opportunities don't come everyday. We have two cracks at it. Definitely the first one is going to be real important. I don't think we want to get ourselves into the situation of coming back here, pushing a game 7 that a coin could be tossed and anybody could win. We have great option for us in front of our fans. It has been a long, long Playoff so we just hopefully try to finish it off in Jersey, but it is going to be so hard. These guys won't roll over and give us the game that's for sure.

SERGEI BRYLIN: Powerplay we talk about, you know, switching sides a little bit, so I was trying to dump the puck behind the net and Scotty Niedermayer poked it back to Alex and he shouted that I just tipped the puck in the air and it went in.

SCOTT STEVENS: No question it gives you a lift. Marty made some great saves and then the guys on the bench we saw that and you know he was on his game and he was awesome and I mean there's no question it gives the team a big lift when your goalie makes big saves and Marty made some big saves for us tonight. It is definitely important position and like I said, it was a big night for him.

SCOTT STEVENS: They have been pinching a fair bit. They hit you hard with two guys and don't give you much time to really make a good pass. We try to get the puck up. Our forwards are doing a good job, have our centers come underneath and pick up some loose pucks. When you put the puck up high it is tough for them to control it and keep it in. We have our forwards come underneath. We have got a few breaks but they opened up quite a bit tonight and we have got a lot of 2 on 1s. Obviously we could have had a few more goals.

SCOTT STEVENS: Well, bad thing about it is it doesn't mean anything what I did tonight in Game 6. I definitely --it is fun to be able to chip in and be successful and do something for your hockey club, but our main goal is winning the Stanley Cup and they are going to need to be really sharp in the next game and hopefully not in the next game but if it happens I am going to have to be sharp again. Can't get overwhelmed by what is going on. It is all about high and lows. You have got to try and stay in the middle as much as you can.