HOSSA TO PLAY IN GAME 4

COACH JOEL QUENNEVILLE

Q. What is the status of Marian?
COACH QUENNEVILLE: He’s expected to play tonight.

Q. This morning, just a little rest time, treatment?
COACH QUENNEVILLE: He’s fine.

Q. Joel, talk about having a sense of desperation in this game?
COACH QUENNEVILLE: No, we know the importance of the game. We got
to come in here and win a game.
Coming off our last game, there’s some positives to take out of it.
Basically things we have to concentrate to improve on, obviously faceoffs
and our power play needs to ignite us as well.
We definitely know how important the game is.

Q. You had Bickell with Toews and Kane out there today, is that what
you’re looking for, like it worked in L.A.?
COACH QUENNEVILLE: Could be, yeah.

Q. How do you respond to critics who question whether it’s a
legitimate injury, Marian’s toughness, particularly an ex-Blackhawk?
COACH QUENNEVILLE: If he could play, he would play, so we don’t need
to discuss that. We know how competitive he is and what he means to our
team.

Q. How much has the play between the blue lines contributed to where
the series is right now?
COACH QUENNEVILLE: The neutral zone I think has been pretty tight
for both teams. But getting through it with puck possession is the
challenge for both teams. I think we can be better in that area.
I think we can be better in the offensive zone as well. Whether it’s
puck protection, or puck possession, getting through the middle of the ice
is the ongoing challenge. The awareness of what we have to get through is
what we talk about a lot. We want to make sure we’re better in that area
and getting through it faster.

Q. The Kane and Toews thing again. You start the series without
them together, they worked together well in the last series, you put them
back together again. Is this a card up your sleeve?
COACH QUENNEVILLE: Every series is different. Every matchup is
different. They’ve had some looks together over the course of the games.
We look at production. Sometimes maybe we’re looking to ignite. One line
can get going. We don’t really care who scores goals. If they can get
hot, get on the board offensively, that’s what we look for.
But they’re certainly capable of it. They exited the last series on
a high note. Getting back together here, hopefully they can continue on.

Q. Joel, do you feel you’ve been too preoccupied with Chara this
series or is he worthy of the attention you’re giving him?
COACH QUENNEVILLE: I don’t know if we’re giving him attention,
respect or whatever. Certainly he’s playing meaningful minutes. He’s
going to be out there against top guys. It’s not like we’re keeping guys
off the ice.
I think the score is something we always look at as well, it’s what
we’re playing against. I think the guys out there against him, they like
to play their game. But certainly it’s a challenge getting through him to
the net, whether it’s him or everybody. That’s the area we got to get
better at.

Q. You’re talking about puck protection and possession. How
important is Hossa to getting that done for you in the neutral zone?
COACH QUENNEVILLE: Whether it’s neutral zone, offensive zone, all
zones, his awareness with the puck and puck protection is as good as there
is in the game. I think defensively he is responsible as well.
He sees plays, makes plays in tight areas, knows how to come up with
pucks.

Q. Jonathan was taking about the faceoffs, that the Bruins do a good
job moving their legs on the faceoffs. What have you seen they’ve done so
well?
COACH QUENNEVILLE: Well, we’ve looked at it, dissected it, really
spent some time on it the last couple days to know we have to be more aware
of what they’re up to. Let’s make sure we win more than our share, because
it was a very abnormal, one-sided, last game and could have been the
difference in the game.

Q. Can you discuss Jamal Mayers’ role on this team, filling in on
lines. He also said he didn’t want to be a coach. Would he make a good
coach?
COACH QUENNEVILLE: I don’t want to encourage anybody to be a coach.
Jammer is one of those guys, he’s a great teammate. He does everything he
can for the guys. He has some experience. He wants to get in the lineup
in the worst way. Does everything he can to get in there if the moment
arises. Keeps himself ready.
He has pretty good insights to what the guys are thinking about,
whether it’s in between games, preparing himself for games. He’s a good
mentor for some of the younger guys as well.
Jammer has been around coaching for a long time, when he first came
in the league early in his career as well. He has a pretty good awareness
to not just the game but the way people approach things.

Q. Seabrook and Keith, obviously keys to your offense. What have
you done or can you do to help them get more bulk?
COACH QUENNEVILLE: I think offensively we’d like a little bit more
I’d say puck possession we’re talking about in the offensive zone, whether
it’s more movement off the points, getting shots through, getting ugly
goals. We need more traffic. We haven’t got those lanes. Whether we have
to get in earlier position where the lanes are open, one-timers, but a
little more action on our points in the offensive zone, puck possession and
movement down in the offensive zone as well.

Q. In dissecting the faceoff video, were you able to pick up
tendencies?
COACH QUENNEVILLE: The tendency is they went back to their team more
than us. That was probably the one thing. They’ve got some good skill.
They’ve got some good technique. I think trying to disrupt it is something
we’re going to have to challenge.

Q. In boxing fighters say they worry about what they’re going to do,
not the other person. One would think in your game what the other team
does affects what you do. How do you view that?
COACH QUENNEVILLE: In our game we like to play to our strengths. We
always talk about an awareness of what they’re up to, what we do. It’s how
we can play, what we can control. We want to play to our strengths, we
want to play to our speed game, and we want to make them play defense the
best we can.
We can do a better job. If we want to be successful, that’s an area
we have to be better at. We have to make sure we spend more time attacking
and more time in their end.
Thank you.

JULIEN PRE GAME PRESS CONFERENCE

COACH CLAUDE JULIEN

Q. Claude, Tyler Seguin was talking about how it wasn’t an easy
thing for him to come to you and say, I’m not scoring goals, what can I do
better? Some of the guys think you’re an approachable coach. What is it
like, your relationship with the players? When a guy comes to you, is it
easy to be open and honest?
COACH JULIEN: It is. That’s a relationship I think coaches always
have to have with players, more today than ever. There was a time back
when I played that you didn’t really ever bother the coach. You either
played or you didn’t. If you didn’t, you found a way to get back in the
lineup.
Today it’s a different concept, players want to know, they need
guidance. You give it to them. They know that door has always been open
for conversation. Doesn’t mean they will hear what they want to hear, but
they’ll hear the truth.
Tyler wanted to know how he could help the team.

Q. It was said that in this playoffs, how hard it’s been to carry
momentum, but you’ve been able to put a couple of games together. Just
your take on that, why that may be.
COACH JULIEN: Well, because teams that we’re playing against are
pretty good. We just have to look at the Pittsburgh series. It was 4-0.
As I said before, some games could have gone either way. This is a 2-1
series. Game 1 could have gone either way, Game 2 could have gone either
way. Can say the same thing about Game 3.
It’s about making your breaks, taking advantage of them when you have
them. That’s why we’ll have some discussions on whether you can build
momentum or not, whether coaches believe in it or not.
As I said, you always have to focus on the game that you’re going to
play that night, which is tonight. I’m not looking at, We’ve got momentum
now, we won the last two. I don’t believe in that. They understand how
important this game is, and so do we. It’s going to be a battle out there
today.

Q. Patrice probably sacrifices some of his offense in order to play
at both ends of the ice. How would you sum up what he means to this club?
COACH JULIEN: I’m not sure I’m going to agree he sacrifices some
offense. If he does, he’d probably be a minus player. He recognizes that
both sides of the game are important to him. He knows how important it is
to our team. He takes pride in that.
Could he have more points? Yes. He’s also a guy on the ice for more
goals-against. He’s learned to balance that thing properly.
In my eyes, when you look at the offensive numbers he puts up there
for how well he plays defensively, I think it’s tremendous.
You look at his plus/minus every year, that’s always something that
dictates a lot about a player. It doesn’t mean it’s his fault that he gets
scored on. When you’re consistently a plus player, you play with different
guys, he had Recchi, Jagr, Seguin, Marchand for a few years, but other
years he had other players, too. Still, that line becomes a really
reliable line.
A big part of it is because of Patrice Bergeron. Not just reliable
offensively, but reliable defensively as well.
To me it’s a mindset he has, something he takes pride in. Because
he’s like that, more and more he’s getting recognized for being an
outstanding player in this league.

Q. After tonight’s game you get a couple days before the next one.
Does that change much in how you plan this game tonight, how much you might
use guys?
COACH JULIEN: Not really. You don’t get a second chance at trying
to win the game you’re playing that night. You got to do whatever you have
to do. Even if we were playing every second night, if you need to shorten
your bench, you do it. If you need to play certain players, move them
around, you do that.
I don’t think those two days are going to change anything in our
philosophy of having to win tonight. Our focus is going to be on what we
need to do tonight, not what is going to happen in the next two days,
resting them, playing them more because we got two days for them to rest.
It’s about winning and finding the right recipe.

Q. What has Jagr’s presence off the ice meant to the team?
COACH JULIEN: You have to start reading some transcripts here. I’ve
answered that question about five times already. I’ll answer it again
(laughter).
Everybody in that dressing room knows what he’s done in his career.
Everybody in that dressing room sees what he does now. We talk about a guy
that goes the extra mile to stay in great shape, conditioning. When
everybody else has gone home, he’s still at the rink, doing extra, because
he knows himself, he knows what he needs to do to keep up with the game.
He’s a great example for younger players to look at. That’s what he
brings off of the ice. You guys see what he brings on the ice. He’s done
it everywhere he’s gone. We knew about that coming in. Sometimes he does
different things than anybody else, like going on the ice late at night on
his own.
You know what, he’s earned that right. Definitely if that’s what
makes him a good player in the next game, why not just let him do those
kind of things?
I think he knows himself well enough we can allow him to do those
things. I think the players respect that he does that. And maybe a
20-year-old doesn’t have to do that at this stage, but maybe when he gets a
little older, he might take some of those things into consideration to know
how hard he works after games.

Q. Tyler Seguin said the last few games are the best games since he
started. Do you feel the same way?
COACH JULIEN: Absolutely. He’s played well. I said that the other
day. Maybe he hasn’t got that goal or those goals, but he’s got some
assists, made some great plays on other ones that they haven’t scored.
He’s forechecked, done well in the battles as far as trying to come
up with the puck, all the things we ask him to do. We’re not expecting him
to be a real physical player because we don’t try to make a player what
he’s not.
But it’s about winning battles. Battles means coming out with the
puck. Whichever way you have to do it, you go out and do it. I think he’s
done a great job of getting in there and creating those situations to this
is advantage.

Q. Zdeno’s shot totals per game is down a little bit. Is that just
an indication of defense-first kind of mentality?
COACH JULIEN: It’s just making smart decisions. Chicago is a team
that does a great job of fronting. We used to talk about New York.
Chicago does a great job, too. They’re in the shooting lanes. Maybe when
he gets the puck, they’re in the shooting lanes. He’ll make a smarter
decision with the puck than to get it blocked. I don’t see an issue there.
At the end of the day, scoring chances are there. It’s tight on both
sides. But I think last game we had close to, in our counts, to 20 scoring
chances. So they’re there. I’m not going to put too much emphasis that
his shot total is down.

Q. From a philosophy standpoint from you, are you tougher on a team
as the games get bigger when they win or when they lose or is it no
difference or is it a feel thing?
COACH JULIEN: It’s a feel thing. You can lose some games where you
think your team played extremely well and you can win some games where you
thought you were lucky and guys didn’t perform well. I look more at the
situation.
But we’re in a stage right now where I think we just got to stay
focused. My job is to keep our team focused on the present, not the
future. That’s the most dangerous thing right now, is to try to look
ahead. We have a job to do tonight – not tomorrow, but tonight. I think
our guys have to be ready for that challenge that we’re going to get
tonight.

Q. We’ve talked about with Seguin and Kelly, they haven’t been going
offensively, they’ve been able to find the right mindset. Recchi, a couple
years ago when he retired, said Peverley would be a good option, he still
seems to have the right mindset knowing he’s contributing on the faceoff,
PK, everything. Speak to his character, how he’s handled less glamorous
situations this year.
COACH JULIEN: He’s done well in that regard. I’ve said it I think
yesterday. We’re a team. We take a lot of pride in whatever we have to
do. Sometimes you’re given a role that is maybe not the role you’ve been
used to, but you embrace it.
Somebody has to take over for Gregory Campbell right now. He’s a
great faceoff guy, a guy that can play with energy. He can give us that.
He’s a great penalty killer, as you mentioned.
You take what they bring in a positive way and you try and insert him
in those kind of situations.
Those guys understand it. Like I said, we spread everything around.
We got guys that kill penalties, guys on the power play. The role players
are extremely proud of their roles. I think that’s important for a hockey
club to have success.
A guy like him has a lot of versatility. You can put him on the top
line. You’ve seen him on the wing on the top line. He’ll be able to help
your hockey club. I think that’s an asset to any hockey club that has
players like that.

Q. Jagr, with him on the power play, we see the pass that was made
the other night. You brought him to be the left shot on the right side.
What does that do for you, opening up space on the other side?
COACH JULIEN: Well, obviously he’s been a player that’s excelled in
those areas throughout his career. He’s got good vision. He can make
those passes like you saw the other night. At the same time I’ve seen
where teams really try and jump him, try to get the puck out of his hands
because they know how dangerous he can be. When they do that, sometimes
they’ll pull a guy out of position which allows another guy to get a good
scoring opportunity.
He’s brought that respect I guess to our power play as well. Another
dangerous player. So it’s opened up some other options.
I think he’s done a great job of that.
Thank you.

TWO MORE TO GO !

BY KEVIN FLANAGAN
BSD CORREDPONDENT

Now I ask you, does it get any better than this?

Talk about a story for the ages, the team that just over a month ago was left for dead with 10 minutes to go in game 7 against the Toronto Maple Leafs now sits 2 games away from their 2nd Stanley Cup in 3 years.

Facing a roster shake up at the very least and the dismissal of the head coach or even possibly the GM the Bruins did what champions do and picked themselves up off the floor and fought their way back to the brink of history.

Because it’s the Cup.

With 2 more wins the names of Bergeron, Chara, and Krejci can be mentioned in the same breath as Bruin legends and 2 time Stanley Cup Champions like Schmidt, Dumart, Bower and of course the immortal Orr, Esposito and Bucyk.

As we all know that is the equivalent of hockey royalty here in the Hub.

And how about the story surrounding the defiant deacon of defense, head coach Claude Julien? With all the style and sizzle of a ham sandwich on white the man who looks like a giant human thumb in a suit and tie behind the bench now finds himself 2 wins away from doing what no Bruins head coach in their 89 years of existence has ever done; win 2 Stanley Cups.

Amazing. I guess there is something to be said about his “system” and rolling 4 lines. And to think just a month ago I, like many, had a car waiting outside the Garden to take him to the airport.

This latest version of the Big, Bad Bruins is assaulting the record books with a punishing style that leaves their opponents with little room to operate. They have taken the best 2 offensive teams in the NHL in the Penguins and the Blackhawks and have limited them to 7 goals in 7 games.

With all due respect to what Tim Thomas did in 2011 (don’t you wonder whether Thomas gets satellite reception in the missile silo he lives in scarfing down Ho-Ho’s and writing his political manifesto?) the fabulous Finn Tuukka Rask is doing things no one could have imagined.

Two games to go for history. Two games to win to earn the right to call yourself Stanley Cup Champions again.

Because it’s the Cup.

A CANDID CAMPBELL

      

GREGORY CAMPBELL

 
Q.   Gregory, how are you?  Take us through what happened.  What have your emotions been like over this ride here?

GREGORY  CAMPBELL:   I  feel  good.   I mean, it’s been eight or nine days.   I  had the surgery a week ago Monday.  Obviously naturally you have that progression where there’s a little bit of pain coming out of surgery.       But  everybody  did a great job, treated me extremely well.  The pain
subsided very quickly.  There’s not much I can do at this point.  Just kind
of let it heal.
The emotional part of it, I mean, we’re in the Stanley Cup Final now. I’ve  been a fan of the game for as long as I can remember and I’ve watched probably  every  Stanley  Cup  Final there is.  It’s obviously tough not to play.       But  having  said  that,  I’m  extremely  proud  of  my teammates and fortunate to be here, fortunate to have been part of the run that I was on.       Now I’m cheering them on pretty loudly.

Q.  Not to bring up bad memories or anything, but just could you even begin to describe the pain you were in from the moment it hit you?  Did you know  it  was  broken?  How long did the 47 seconds you were on the ice for after, or whatever it was, feel?

GREGORY  CAMPBELL:  I’ve got asked that a few times:  Did you know it was  broken?   You know, I can’t say with 100% certainty that I knew it was broken,  but I felt like it was a different feeling.  I blocked a few shots before.  This just seemed different.       Then  once I was able to get back to my feet, I was not positive, but fairly  sure that there was something wrong.  I don’t have x-ray vision, so I didn’t know at the time that it was broken for sure.  Like I said, it was a different feeling.

The  pain  aspect,  yeah, I mean, it hurt a little bit.  It was sore. But your adrenaline’s going pretty good at that point.  You’re stuck on the ice  with a couple of the best players in the world.  You really don’t have
much  time  to  think about anything else but trying to help out and kill a penalty.

Q.   Did you see that video clip of you out there, have you gone back and watched it?  Are you sort of proud of what you did, in a sense?

GREGORY CAMPBELL:  I’ve seen it a few times, just watching the games. Naturally  I  watched  the  replay.  There’s been an overwhelming amount of support for me.  It’s humbling, to be honest with you.
The  way  I  look  at  it, it might sound naïve of me, but I was just trying to do whatever I could to kill the penalty, help out.  At that point I really wasn’t thinking much.
There  are  a lot of players right now that are playing not 100%, and there’s  a  lot  of  guys  that  play through pain.  I don’t see myself any different than anybody else in this league.  There’s a lot of tough guys in this  league.  A lot of players are willing to do whatever they can to win. At this point you see that more often, guys doing whatever they can to win.       I’m no different than anyone else on these two teams in the playoffs. I was just trying to finish the play and do my job.

Q.  Greg, along those lines, you have become the symbol of this team. You  are  the  most  talked about player when people talk about the Bruins, blue-collar  work  ethic, so forth.  How do you feel about that role?  Have you  been  exposed  to it, either getting phone calls, watching TV?  How do you feel about all that?

GREGORY  CAMPBELL:   Again,  I’m  not going to put myself in front of anybody  else  and  say  I’m  the picture of the Bruins.  This original six organization,  goes  back  a  long  way.  It kind of represents the city, a blue-collar, hard-working city with honest people.
When  I got traded to Boston, I thought it was tailor-made to my game the  way  this  team exemplifies the heart and soul of what a hockey player should be made of.  I was proud to come to this team and play hard for this team every night.
There’s  18 other guys in that room that would do the same thing, and that’s what makes us successful, and makes us a hard team to play against.       I’d rather be known for my play other than getting hurt.  But, like I said,  I  just  want  to play hard for the team and for the players in that room.

Q.  Greg, could you talk about Daniel Paille and what he’s done since you’ve been out.

GREGORY  CAMPBELL:   I mean, I guess we found out the problem, me and Thorty (Thornton) have been holding him back the last two years (smiling).
He’s been big for our team.  I’ve gotten the opportunity to watch him now  that  I’m  not  playing with him.  He does a lot of things that really help out a team in the playoffs.
Playoff  hockey  is  really  where  he shines.  I can relate to that. It’s  the  simple  things that might not draw a lot of attention during the regular season, but when it really matters in the playoffs, he’s been there
for us.
As  you’ve  seen  throughout the playoffs, it’s been repetitively the same  guys  scoring  night  in and night out.  That’s extremely hard as you move on and face better teams, better defensemen.  For the top two lines to keep scoring on that pace is extremely hard.
My  point  is  that  it  takes  four lines.  You see their third line contributing in Game 1, how important that was for them.  For Danny to really step up and really be a leader in that sense, I’m extremely  happy  for  him  because he’s one of the better guys I’ve played with,  nicer  people.   But  he works hard and he deserves to do well.  I’m glad that he’s helping the team.

Q.  What kind of talks have you had with Nathan Horton, if any, about what  he  went through a couple years ago?  Are you bringing a water bottle to Chicago this weekend?

GREGORY  CAMPBELL:   I  don’t think I will.  If I don’t have the same success as Nathan, it won’t look very good on me.
But  I’ve spoken to him a little bit.  Now I can definitely relate to how  hard  it  was  for  him, when I say not to be a part of it physically, because he was one of the main reasons we got to where we were in 2011, but for  any  athlete that’s not playing, for whatever reason, I would say it’s probably the hardest thing.
It’s  a  huge test of your character to have to sit on the sidelines.
It’s  actually probably harder to watch than it is to play just because you have no control over anything.
There’s  a  lot  of  work  that  goes into getting to this point from everybody.  It takes really everybody to get to the Stanley Cup Final.       Along  the way you’re needed at some point.  I tried to do the best I
could  when  I had the opportunity.  Now I’ll try to kind of replicate what Nathan  did,  support  the  team, be there, act like I’m still playing even though I’m not, just try to support them however I can.

Q.   Gregory, men sometimes express their affection or admiration for each  other  in kind of goofy ways.  Can you describe what it was like when you walked into the dressing room in shorts, however you were dressed, what was said, how good that made you feel, and who had the best line.

GREGORY  CAMPBELL:   They  always  give  me  jabs  about  the way I’m dressed.  Doesn’t matter if I’m playing or not.       It  was  a  tough  week,  not  because of surgery, but just because I didn’t feel a part of the team.  That’s not because anybody, you know, left me  out.  I was included a lot.  I got text messages every day from all the guys, even from staff and whatnot.
It’s  just not being there, you know, you naturally feel a little bit excluded and helpless, I guess.
So to walk in yesterday and see the guys, that was a great relief for me  to  know  that  they do still recognize me and I am still a part of the team.   Being around the dressing room is just kind of second nature to me. I love being around the room.  Having that taken away from you really makes
you  realize  how  fortunate I am to be a part of this team, a part of this group.       Everybody’s  extremely  close  in there.  It was like being separated from  your family for a few days, then kind of rejoining them.  That’s kind of the feeling that I had.

Q.  Can you give an example of a one-liner?

GREGORY  CAMPBELL:   I mean, I guess it wasn’t yesterday, but today I was  wearing white jeans.  Thorty said the last time he saw a pair of white jeans was when he got in a bar fight (laughter).

Q.   You’ve  known  Nathan  longer than any of us.  He’s a guy really throughout  his  career, his desire and will has been questioned at various points.  When you see what he’s playing through right now, the fact he went through  something similar before he got the concussion a couple years ago, can you speak to what a gamer he is, how maybe that might not get noticed.

GREGORY  CAMPBELL:   Well,  I mean, yeah, I’ve played with Nathan now for  10, 11 years almost.  I know him pretty well.  I have a lot of respect for Nathan as a hockey player, as a person.
I  think  he’s  exemplified his strengths the majority of his career. But  I think now that we actually have a chance to be in the playoffs, have a  chance to help a team win, I think that takes you to the next level as a
player.
You  learn  how to win.  You get to be a part of something that not a lot  of guys get to be a part of.  Case in point was with him and I, me not being  in the playoffs five years in a row, him even longer, because he was there before me.
I  don’t  think it was anything that he was ever lacking.  I think it was  the  opportunity  that he was given here.  Again, to go back to what I said  of  me fitting into this team, I say the same thing for Nathan.  He’s been  a  great fit for this organization and this city, and he’s a lot more talented than me.  It’s even a better mix.
You  know,  he’s a very positive person, so he’s had some setbacks in his  career,  but  he’s always handled them with class.  He’s always been a driven individual.
He’s  a calm person in a sense that nothing really bothers him, so he might  come  off sometimes that his heart’s not in it, but that couldn’t be further  from  the  truth.   He’s a heart-and-soul guy.  He carries himself with  so  much  poise,  sometimes it’s misconstrued as he doesn’t care, but that’s not Nathan at all.

Q.  In terms of your recovery, expectations.  Is your plan to be back for the start of next season?

GREGORY  CAMPBELL:   I’ve  been  told  six  to  eight weeks as a soft timeline.  It guess it really depends on the individual, how fast you heal, whatever the healing process presents.
I’m   fully  expecting  to  be  100%  at  camp.   Maybe  I  won’t  be participating  fully in camp.  I can’t say that right now.  But if you look at  six  to eight weeks, it puts me in mid July to late July, early August.
I’ll be back on my feet.
Obviously  my  training  program  is  going  to  change a little bit. That’s  a  big  part  of my game.  But that’s just something that I have to deal with and I’ll have to work around.

Q.   Shawn  Thornton,  the  night  you  broke your leg, was with you, walked  you  out.  He’s been like a puppy dog without you around the locker room.  What have your teammates been like?  What does that mean to you?

GREGORY  CAMPBELL:   They’ve  all been very, very supportive, made me feel  a  part  of  the team whether I’m there or not, like I said, with the text messages and whatnot.
After  surgery I got a text message from every guy on the team.  That makes you feel good as a player, just to know that I am missed, I guess, in a sense.
I  don’t  think  Thorty  is lost without me.  He’s been playing well. Definitely him and I have bonded I guess over the last few years and played a lot of hockey together.
You know, it’s difficult.  We’ve had the luxury of being together for a long time, and that’s pretty rare in hockey, to play with the same player or same players as we have been able to, with him and Danny.
So,  you know, there’s a little bit of I guess probably an adjustment phase  there.   Not because they’re missing me, but because they’re playing with new players.
But  going  back to the second part of your question.  It’s been very overwhelming  the  amount  of support and care the whole team has shown me. I’m very grateful for that.

Q.   Gregory,  I’m  assuming  you  know  now who Bobby Baun was.  I’m wondering  if  before  this  happened had you ever heard of him and can you appreciate what he did?

GREGORY CAMPBELL:  I did hear of him before.  I’ve heard comparisons, but  I don’t think there’s any comparison.  I mean, he came back and scored an OT winner.
I  know people probably joke around about that, I don’t put myself in that category, but that’s impressive to do that.       Like  I  said  earlier,  that’s kind of the nature of hockey players. It’s  not me specifically.  It’s everybody in this league, the will to want to succeed and play for your teammates and have pride in yourself.
I  respect  that feat of his, and mine was nowhere near that.  But it just  goes  to  show  you  how tough you have to be to play in this league. There’s  700,  800  other players that are tough like that and play through things every day.

Q.  I guess everybody in hockey understands why you did what you did, staying  on  after injuring yourself.  No doubt your family did, too, given the bloodlines.  Has anybody said to you, What on earth were you thinking?

GREGORY  CAMPBELL:   Not really.  I mean, nobody’s actually said that to  me.  I guess maybe it would have been a different story if the play was in the other end and I was closer to the bench.
I guess my thought process was that it would have taken me probably a while  to  get  back  there to the bench.  I thought if I could get up, and I’ve  always  felt like if you could get up, you should get up.  I tried, I
got up.  I tried to get in the lane and prevent passes.
Obviously  I  wasn’t  very effective at that, but at least I tried to not be a liability as best I could.  So I think it was more beneficial that I  stayed  out there than if I just kind of headed for the bench.  It would
have taken me a while to get there.  Who knows what would have happened. I  made the decision at the time and I felt that was the correct one. But, no, nobody said that to me yet.

CLAUDE JULIEN MORNING PRESS CONFERENCE

COACH CLAUDE JULIEN

Q. How many times has Patrice used two other players by your
coaching staff as a how to, an example of ‘This is the way we need to do
it’?
COACH JULIEN: Well, there’s no doubt he’s a great example. As I
said, for a coach, you know exactly what you’re going to get from him every
game. His work ethic, everything that comes with it is second to none.
He’s often used as a good example because he deserves it.

Q. If you could remember back to 2011, can you compare what you guys
have done against Chicago in this series to stifle them offensively versus
what you did against the Canucks?
COACH JULIEN: I think every year you have to look at it differently.
I think we’ve had the challenge of playing teams like Vancouver, Pittsburgh
this year, Chicago now, that I just say we have a tremendous amount of
respect for their offense.
All it is, is awareness, knowing if you’re going to give yourself a
chance to win, you’ve got to try to slow down that offense. Our guys have
committed to that. That doesn’t mean we haven’t provided any offense
because the scoring chances are there, but there’s a great commitment to
that right now.
That’s what we’ve did two years ago, that’s what we’ve done so far,
and that’s what we’ve got to continue to do if we expect to continue to
win.

Q. Are you a believer in symbolism? If so, how much of a symbol is
Gregory Campbell to the 2013 Bruins in the playoffs?
COACH JULIEN: Well, I think he exemplifies a lot of what we’re all
about. I’ve said it before. We take pride in being a blue-collar team.
We don’t care about calling certain guys superstars on our team. We all
want to be on the same level.
There’s no doubt there’s great players on our hockey club. We make
sure that the role players are just as important as the guys that are more
visible to the media and to our fans as far as being the limelight of our
hockey club.
But having said that, that’s how we’ve always been. You’ve seen it
in the times where guys a few years ago had that jacket, now a different
one this year. It’s moved around our team for different reasons. It just
goes to show how we appreciate everything.
I guess that would be more of our symbol versus just a one guy. But
there’s no doubt, we’re happy to see him. He came in yesterday for the
first time since we came back. Not only were the guys happy to see him,
but they made him feel very welcome by getting on him shortly after he made
his presence in the dressing room.

Q. How did they get on him?
COACH JULIEN: They just jab him. I think he came in wearing shorts
yesterday. He was well-dressed, but looked like a guy on vacation,
according to the guys. They just gave him a jab.
But he’s a guy we dearly miss. We’ve seen him do so many good things
for our hockey club. It was a big loss when he got injured.
But we’re kind of fortunate. We talk about depth. Some guys have
stepped in and done a good job. Like anything else, you don’t replace the
individual; you try and work around it.

Q. Speaking of the jacket, we see Dennis Seidenberg wearing it last
night. Clearly the last three years we’ve seen how good he’s been. Before
he got here, he was on four different teams in five seasons. What allowed
him to fit in so well here?
COACH JULIEN: I think our guys that scouted him, that’s upper
management, had noticed one thing: that he always played well in big
games, had the great stats. I don’t talk about offensive stats, but stats
as far as being dependable, being at his best. The bigger the games were,
the better he became. So they recognized that.
Coming in here I think he became a good fit with our hockey club.
Every year in the playoffs, he becomes a horse, as well. You can’t tire
him out. He wears guys down. He’s strong physically. You can give him as
much ice time as you do to Zdeno. He’s capable of handling that.
He’s been a good addition to our hockey club. The credit, as far as
I’m concerned, goes to our pro scouts.

Q. Based on what you’ve seen, the style of play, the system, do you
sense that Chicago is getting a little bit frustrated as evidenced by
taking bad penalties?
COACH JULIEN: I don’t know. I think emotions are part of the
Stanley Cup Final. I think when you’re at this stage, there’s a lot of
emotions. I think, if anything, the emotions have been checked pretty good
so far in this series.
We took a penalty, first penalty of the game, Daugavins, an elbowing
penalty. When you look at those things, you got to be disciplined, you got
to be careful that you don’t let the emotions get the better of you.
There’s times in the game when those kind of things happen. You saw
it in the scrum. You saw it at different times. You have to try to keep
your team in check as best you can. As far as I’m concerned, that’s what
I’m trying to do with my team.
Maybe you get a better look at their bench, what’s happening there,
but I don’t.

Q. How much of the chess match directly revolves around Chara? Does
it have a ripple effect even when he’s not on the ice?
COACH JULIEN: Well, I just think that’s part of hockey. I mean, you
have matchups, sometimes teams will match their forward lines against other
forward lines. I know back not that many years ago, every team had to
build a third line, more of a defensive, shut-down lines, that would play
top lines. That’s kind of gone away.
I guess in this new NHL, scoring is something that we’re trying to
create. Now you’re trying to get more than two lines that can score,
you’re trying to get a third line. We built our team with that energy line
as our fourth line, a line that can still score.
Nonetheless, that’s changed a little bit. It depends.
In our case, I put a lot of faith and confidence in our players up
front. You’ll see most of our matchups from the back end versus the front
end.

Q. You had an impressive outing from your reshaped third line last
night. After watching that trio, what do you think makes them so
successful?
COACH JULIEN: I just think the way they work together. You know,
you look at the goal yesterday, great forechecking job forces a turnover.
A guy in the open. Once the turnover is there, pass to the slot, good
shot. But also staying on top of the puck, we won two battles right after
that shot in order to score that goal.
They just seem to be working well together. A lot of credit goes to
them. I’m just a little ticked off that I didn’t put them together sooner.

Q. Claude, Chris Kelly was saying after the game yesterday part of
what makes their line successful is Tyler’s maturation into a complete
player. Where is Tyler in that process of being a two-way player?
COACH JULIEN: I kind of answered that question yesterday as far as
saying that he’s a player that hasn’t scored much in these playoffs. What
he’s realized is that just because you don’t score doesn’t mean you can’t
be a good player. He’s been a good player because he’s competed hard in
all areas of the ice.
Everybody is talking about how he’s evolved defensively, and he has,
but it hasn’t taken away from his offense even if he’s not scoring. He’s
got chances. When you look at the number of shots he’s had, he’s got ‘em.
But he’s making plays, the winning goal for Paille in Game 2. Those are
all things that he’s bringing to the table.
At the same time I’m seeing a player’s demeanor change as well as far
as his preparation, understanding more. That’s a normal thing that you see
with all young players coming into the league. It takes time.
He’s been fortunate enough in his first year to be around the guys
winning the Stanley Cup in 2011. He’s had a bit of an edge maybe that way
of going far through the last few years.
I see a change in him, no doubt, more in his demeanor. As I said the
other day, he asked me that question, What can I do to help our team here?
I know I’m not scoring. Basically just told him to keep working and keep
making things happen. That’s what he’s done.
Sometimes stats can say certain things, but it doesn’t say
everything. Right now I’m pleased with his outings lately.

Q. When you talk about slowing down the Blackhawks’ attack, when you
were game planning, was there something you wanted to do with Patrick Kane?
Was there something specific you wanted to do to neutralize that?
COACH JULIEN: I don’t think we’ve targeted anybody that way. What
we do as a team is we target the other team. What I mean by that is, we
have to close the gaps quickly.
Anytime a team has a transition game like the Chicago Blackhawks
have, great skaters, speed, skill, it’s important we close quickly.
If you just focus on one guy, you’re forgetting somebody else.
That’s the approach we’ve taken. That’s the approach that works best for
our hockey club.

Q. You’ve had a couple of situations against the Blackhawks and the
Penguins where the goalie was pulled, you were trying to protect the lead.
Jagr was part of your group.
COACH JULIEN: First of all, we had a tired bench. We got scrambling
near the end. As far as I’m concerned Jagr has a good stick. He doesn’t
panic under pressure. I thought it was a good time for him.
Obviously we went through three rotations when they had their
goaltender pulled. I needed almost everybody out there. He’s got
experience, is a reliable guy, knows what he needs to do. Maybe in
hindsight it would have been nice for him to get a goal, too.
Is that what you were hoping (smiling)? Okay, I said it.

Q. Could you talk a little bit about coming back on home ice and
just the feel of that, what it does for the team, your home fans.
COACH JULIEN: Well, you’re always more comfortable at home. There’s
no doubt about that. We got to be careful how we use the word
‘comfortable’ because you don’t want to get too comfortable.
Having your fans behind you is always key. I think they always talk
about that seventh player award. Your fans are often the people that you,
I guess, appreciate for being that.
This is a building here that we deem as our home, a home that we
don’t want any other team to be comfortable in. It’s important for us to
continue to play the way we did last night.
We played a pretty solid game. No matter how you look at it, when
you’re playing a team like the Blackhawks, they’re going to get their
chances. Just have to minimize those things.

Q. Obviously there’s nothing anybody can do to reverse the events of
a couple of months ago. With the run you’re on, with what you’re doing, is
it possible for a team to, in some small way, help a city heal from
something like that?
COACH JULIEN: I think we can help in probably a large way.
Everybody is looking right now for something to cheer about, smile about.
I guess it doesn’t fix the things or the people that have been lost. That
will never be fixed. At the same time you have to try to heal.
As much as the city itself has been touched by that, so have we as a
team. I’ve known for a long time, that’s all we talked about.

CHARA HAPPY WITH OUTCOME

BOSTON BRUINS DEFENSEMAN ZDENO CHARA
On being up 2-1 in the series…
Yeah, I mean it’s 2-1, and we’ve just got to get ready for the next game.

On what he thinks they did well tonight…
We were playing with a lot of energy and I thought we were managing the puck better.

On what happened in warmups…
Just lost an edge.

On Daniel Paille’s play…
He made a nice shot. It was a quick release. It was a good shot by him.

On not enjoying this win for too long before they begin thinking about Game 4…
Well you’ve got to get ready for the next one. Like I said, it’s 2-1.

On how important puck possession was…
It was important for us to manage the puck better. I thought we did. We’ve just got to continue to do that.

On whether they had the start they wanted…
Yeah, I mean we played in front of the home crowd, so for sure we want to play with a lot of energy.

On whether he can hear the crowd…
I think we can hear it, but obviously our focus is on what’s going on, on the ice.

On Tuukka Rask’s performance…
Very strong. He made some big saves especially when we needed it, so for sure a big performance by him.

On Dennis Seidenberg receiving the Ranger jacket…
He very much deserves the credit. He logs a lot of minutes. He plays a physical game. He’s willing to play whatever role we ask him to do, and for sure he’s a warrior.

On how much they relied on shutting down the Blackhawks’ power play to be successful…
We just tried to work very hard. We take a lot of pride in that so we’ve just got to continue to do that.

On what happened with himself and Brian Bickell at the end of the game…
Just a battle in front of the net. [It’s] part of the game.

On the team’s defense…
Yeah we work really hard defensively. We want to play a tight game and just work really hard.

On whether he felt like they were able to get the matchups they wanted…
It’s a little bit easier when there is a whistle to get maybe certain people against different people, but sometimes it’s not always a perfect scenario so we need to play.

On the challenge of shutting down Toews…
It’s a challenge. They are good players.

SEGUIN POST GAME……

BOSTON BRUINS FORWARD TYLER SEGUIN
On generating scoring chances and biting his stick…
Yeah, I don’t know what I was doing there. Yeah, you know, a few chances. On that one play, Looch [Milan Lucic] made a great pass, I just couldn’t see it through the guy’s legs and then [Brent] Seabrook came down on the cross. That’s playoff hockey. Maybe in the regular season there’s not a D-man blocking that.

On getting a power play goal…
I thought our special teams was huge tonight. I think they have a lot of firepower up front especially, and our PK did a tremendous job tonight. Obviously, it was nice to get a power play goal with a great pass by Jags [Jaromir Jagr].

On whether he thinks about being two wins away from winning the Cup…
I think yes and no. I think it’s going to give you even more motivation knowing you’re only two games away, but that being said, you want to stay calm and confident. Stay focused. I think we’re going to enjoy this one tonight and tomorrow is a new day.

On Daniel Paille’s offensive abilities…
His goal tonight, I was trying to pass it to him. I just saw the goalie’s glove and I hit it to go to Piesy [Daniel Paille] and obviously he did his thing.

On Patrice Bergeron…
Nothing surprises me with him. Obviously, he’s one of our biggest leaders. Sometimes it’s not so much words with him, but his actions. You can definitely follow behind him.

On playing like they did against Pittsburgh tonight…
I think you’re right. I think we’ve shown flashes of it in the first two games, but I think it started from the drop of the puck tonight. And that’s why we were successful, was because we came out with our game plan right from the get-go and used our crowd to our advantage as well.

On what Claude Julien said to the team during the first intermission of Game 2…
I think, yeah, he said a few things we’re not going to talk about. I think the general words across the whole room—not only from Claude—were we needed to wake up. We weren’t playing our system. I don’t know if we were ready to play on our toes. We just seemed to be on our heels all first period there. Since then we’ve been very consistent. We still got a few games to go.

On the team reflecting Claude Julien’s modesty…
We’re successful when we’re playing as a team. There’s not one singled-out guy. Obviously, I think we have some great players that can be thrown on the superstar column, but even they’re buying into the whole team system and that’s why we’re here.

On Patrice Bergeron bringing competitive nature and intensity…
I think he played huge for us tonight. Obviously, as the series goes on he steps up more and more. I’m left out of words for Bergy [Patrice Bergeron]. He definitely shows it with his actions every night.

On playing a full, complete 60 minutes…
I thought we played well. There was obviously a few mistakes that we’re going to correct. This is also the Stanley Cup Finals and Chicago is here for a reason, so we got to be expecting a much better game from them next game. We’re going to enjoy this right now and move on tomorrow.

On home ice advantage at TD Garden…
Of course you’re going to use your home advantage. I think you really use it even more when you have a good start as a team. As long as the crowd is staying in it and you’re not letting them get momentum, it’s definitely huge in the playoffs.

On keeping emotions in check when you’re two wins away from a championship…
You definitely get that extra tingle knowing you’re two games away, but you got to stay calm. Again, like I’ve been saying, we’re going to enjoy this for the night. We know where we stand, but we know Chicago is going to come out much better next game.

On the Paille-Kelly-Seguin line neutralizing Chicago’s speed…
I think they’re a great team. They’re a very fast team. As far as the line, Piesy [Daniel Paille] has been moving his feet. Right now, he’s got a hot stick. I’m trying to do the same, and Kells [Chris Kelly] is playing very responsible. I think we’re just buying the system.

On Patrice Bergeron’s performance tonight…
There’s only so much you can say about him. The same thing with Tuukka [Rask] questions. I think he’s definitely one of the most consistent players I’ve ever seen or played with. He’s definitely my Selke [Trophy] vote, and I thought that was again he stepped his game up a whole level. Obviously getting that huge goal, but all the things away from that you know he’s competing. His draws tonight, it’s huge for us.

BERGERON NAMED GAME 3 #1 STAR

BOSTON BRUINS FORWARD PATRICE BERGERON
On the team’s effort tonight…
I think it was a good effort. Obviously they’re a great team, they’re relentless. They’re first on pucks, so we need to make sure we’re really hard and finding ways to get it. I thought it was a solid effort.

On winning faceoffs…
Definitely something that we take a lot of pride in and we talk about a lot. We have some really good centermens, so it’s not just about the four centers, it’s about everyone on the ice chipping in and helping to get those battles.

On the pass from Jaromir Jagr on his goal…
It was a great pass. I was expecting the puck to come. It was a perfect play. I had to kind of settle it down a bit because it was a hard pass, it was a great pass. I just had to put it in. Thankfully, I did that.

On Zdeno Chara getting nicked up in warmups and still playing well…
Yeah, it tells a lot about him. It just shows the type of person he is, the type of leader he is, the character that he has. Obviously we’re happy to have him and just feed off of his intensity and his will.

On team’s start…
Yeah, especially against a team like Chicago, obviously you’ve got to go hard every shift, you can’t take a shift off. Our start was something that we talked about and carried that on into the second and third period, as well. I thought we did a decent job. Obviously it wasn’t perfect by any means, but at this point of the year you’ve got to take the wins and move on and focus in on Game Four, the next game.

On the power play goal being a spark…
Well, we had 11 seconds on the five-on-three, so we had to make something happen quick and we talked about the play and it worked.

On the team’s confidence, especially in the defensive system…
We’ve said it a lot, it’s about, I guess, trusting the system and making sure we have layers and we communicate on the ice. I think we definitely got to do that even more against them. They have so much talent and great transition. There’s some room to get better, but obviously we’ve got to feed off that system and do it to the ‘tee’.

On when he knew Marian Hossa was not playing…
Just before going on for the first period.

On the difference of playing at home…
It’s definitely great, you feed off the fans. Can’t try to do too much out there, you’ve got to keep playing the same way, keep on the system. They were great again tonight. Game Four we’re expecting the same thing, keep feeding off the crowd.

On a lot of teams taking Dennis Seidenberg as their number one D-man…
For sure. You don’t hear about him that much, but all the little things he does out there goes a long way, especially at this time of the year. We recognize it in this room and I’m sure that’s all that matters to him.

JAGR PRESS CONFERENCE FOLLOWING GAME 3

BOSTON BRUINS FORWARD JAROMIR JAGR
On his assist to the goal and nice pass…
Well we had like 12 seconds 5-on-3 I think and we wanted to shoot right away, but just didn’t happen. Marchy [Brad Marchand] was open across the ice so I tried to pass in and it happened.

On Bergeron’s game…
Everybody knows how good he is . I’ve never really seen anybody be that not hungry in the defensive zone, and I see a lot of guys hungry in offensive zone. I think he even like it more than in offensive zone, and he wants to win every battle on the boards and he’s so responsible back there. So, Bergy [Patrice Bergeron] makes it easy for me and Marchy [Brad Marchand].

On what he saw on the pass…
I see Bergy [Patrice Bergeron].

On how he controls himself from getting too emotional and keeping calm…
How old are you? How old? See, when you hit 30 then 40 you got to be cooled down at some point. That’s the age. No high no lows. I learned that’s the best way to do it, emotion always – if you’re too high or too low, it’s kind of stopping you anyways. So, you have to be same all the time, no matter what happen.

PAILLE TALKS ABOUT GAME WINNER

BOSTON BRUINS FORWARD DANIEL PAILLE
On his thoughts about getting a second game winning goal…
I think I’m just happy that we got the win. Fortunately, it was the game winner and I’ll be excited about it.  More excited that we won.

On whether he thinks there is something special about his new line…
I think we are just moving well and, for the most part, we are holding onto the puck. I think puck possession has been key for us especially. You really see Seggy [Tyler Seguin] moving his legs. That helps a lot.

On how he explains the success of the penalty kill…
You know the penalty killing I think we just went back to our game and they have a lot of talent up there forwards. We know that and I think that’s why we want to try harder. I think we’ve been able to frustrate them right now, but I remember when we were playing against Toronto the bounces were going in their way and right now we are playing well but we have some good bounces as well so it helps in the game.

On what his line has done to generate the scoring opportunities in Game 2 and 3…
I think we are just putting pucks on net and reading plays. Of course, like I said before, I think we are managing the puck a little bit better. Just on my goal, you saw Kells [Chris Kelly] go in and myself I went in and then I shot. I think we are just not giving them enough time to think with the puck and we are able to get it.

On if he thinks the calmness of the team and the consistent lines personifies Claude Julien’s personality in a way…
He, especially over the last year, he’s been putting a lot of confidence in myself and a couple other guys. I think with us it helps in our game and realize that we know we can make plays.  With the coach that has the confidence in you, you feel like you want to do something for it. You want to deserve it. We know we’ve been able to do that these last couple of games and we need to continue that.

On what Claude Julien said after the first period of Game 2…
I mean there wasn’t too much to say. It was pretty short. Just realize that we were pretty terrible and that we needed to pick it up. I mean it was pretty much to the extent. I mean there’s a couple more but it definitely woke us up and, obviously, us as players we told each other to wake up as well and it was good to see a positive response.