Rob Blake Game Quotations

You never want to give a team life - especially a team as good as Dallas. They've got some momentum now, but we've got a chance in the next game to take it away again.

You don't even worry about what happened at the end of the season. Our whole focus is on Dallas this week. We'll go over their game plan and our game plan against them. As far as the regular season, that's forgotten and we go on.

They're a very veteran team. They understand they've been in the last two games. A bounce here or there and the games could have been different. Knowing that they have got guys that have been around a long time, had guys that have won Cups and guys with a lot of leadership, that's why we expect their best game.

This team in the past hasn't taken advantage of some of the leads we've had in a series. So we have to force the issue, not sit and wait and see what's going to happen. (The Stars) are a veteran team with guys who have won Cups and their best game is going to be (tonight).

I think people understand there's a business side to the game and that's been put in the past now. It's time to move on and the excitement of the game will live again.

There's an ongoing investigation, and we talked about this before the game that when an investigation's going on, there's nothing (that is) going to come out of our room.

He was thrown into a defensive role because of his speed. He can use that the other way, too. He usually gets a chance or two a game where he's all alone on the goalie, so he'll be very effective for us.

Definitely. We're going to be fighting down the stretch and we have that western swing with . . . the teams we are battling with. You want be in a position for those three games coming up to be real big.

I think the last 25, 30 games, we've been battling to find our way into the playoffs, and once we succeeded, I think the emotion was tough to bring. But now we move on against Dallas, and I think you'll see we won't have trouble bringing emotion.

We weren't up to the task. They are right back in this series. Now we have to try and go back there and win a game in their building.

He's been a key to our success because I think other players take from what he does out there and their game picks up.

It's a different feel for that game than any other game on your schedule. It has in the past, and always will.

When you win some games in a row, the panic gets out of the way. We know David's going to shut it down for us now.

For those of us who play in the U.S., it was good to be reminded of the sense of passion for the game in Canada.