Peter Laviolette
Peter Laviolette
Peter Philip Laviolette Jr.is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman and current head coach of the National Hockey League's Nashville Predators. He has previously held this position with the New York Islanders, Carolina Hurricanes, and Philadelphia Flyers. In 2006, he coached the Hurricanes to a Stanley Cup...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth7 December 1964
CityFranklin, MA
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I mean, it's a great accomplishment any time you win your division. I think the focus for us is to keep winning games and playing well. Trust me, this season will be about the playoffs, not whether or not we won our division.
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What you're seeing are great skating teams. Nothing says you're going to win a game just because you're better on paper.
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It was a frustrating night for the players, myself, the fans...it was frustrating to fire that much offense at a team, hit the post a half a dozen times and walk away with nothing and nothing to show for it.
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It was a fatigue issue tonight. There just wasn't a whole lot of energy. I'm not making excuses, because we had a game on the schedule tonight. It's the last game at the end of a long trip, and we're expected to win that game.
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It just seemed like something was going to go wrong tonight and it did. We fell down on the first goal.
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We were playing well except for that five minute period where we came out flat to start the third. Then the guys went back to work.
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We got lulled into a game that was not our brand of hockey. Then we kicked in, and we played Carolina Hurricanes hockey in the third period.
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You have a bunch of guys from a bunch of different places, playing a bunch of different ways. You have to somehow corral them and try to bring them in as one, ... We didn't accomplish that here this week, but we did give them the information how we're going to try to do that.
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I can guarantee that's not why they're on the team. They're on the team because they've earned it. Bret Hedican is on his way to one of his best years in the league.
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Somebody has to be the favorite, somebody has to be picked to win the bronze, and somebody has to be picked to finish seventh. There's a lot of talk about us ? not in those first two categories, but the third. To me, that's irrelevant.
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Obviously, it could have been worse. You don't even want to think of what the worst could have been.
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In the end, we needed everybody, from all four (penalty) killers at all different times during the kill, plus the goaltender, and the goaltender ended up being the best penalty killer in the last minute and a half.
choice detroit name played usa
When Don and I talked, Chris' name popped up immediately. Not only because of how well he has played with Detroit this season, but because of the way he has represented USA Hockey... it made the choice easy.
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We weren't able to find the back of the net again in the first period, and they found the back of ours. I think that works against you. We came out in the second period and started firing it in the net and found some success. We could've had a few more, but it didn't happen for us.