Both teams confident heading into series

It's funny how New Jersey head coach Pat Burns can declare "We'll win" one day and follow that up a day later by chastising the Ottawa Senators for talking about their dreams of lifting the Stanley Cup.

Welcome to Part 1 of the mind games of the Eastern Conference finals, which begin Saturday at Ottawa.

"We don't talk about Cups here," Burns told Ottawa and New Jersey media Thursday. "To get to the Cup (final), they have to go through someone first, and that's us."

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