from Mike Heika of the Dallas Morning News,

"It's an evenly matched series, and now it comes down to one game," said center Jason Spezza. "We know them, they know us, it's going to be a great game."

"We've worked hard all year to get to where we finished in the standings," said Stars captain Jamie Benn. "Obviously, home ice is a big part of this. We have a good record at home. We might have lost a couple games in this series at home, but it doesn't matter. We're going to be ready to go and it's huge to play in front of our fans.

"We would go into every game down the stretch trying to win and focus on what we have to do, but at the same time we were checking our phones and the scoreboard to see what they were doing," Benn said. "We've built a pretty good rivalry here, and what better way to settle it than Game 7?"

"I think we get to make up anything we want, we really do," Stars coach Lindy Ruff said to the media when asked what he expects. "You guys get to take any angle you want, and I could make up anything I want. There's going to be opportunities to seize or change momentum in the game because we have two really good teams that are going at it here, two really close teams, and you're going into a Game 7."

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from Jeremy Rutherford of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,