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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We've focused in on the last four or five weeks because you want someone playing well in that position, you want a goaltender that's hot. A week or 10 days ago, he had some of the best numbers in the NHL.
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The power-play guys have got to be exhausted. But I thought they did a pretty good job of moving the puck around. It was nice to get the last one. We were getting frustrated there in the third period.
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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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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.
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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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We had a mess of chances to score and bury this game and we didn't.
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That was awesome, nothing was nicer than seeing a green ice. Thanks John Deere and Eric Staal.
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I thought he played well the entire 60 minutes and got stronger through the game.
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We got totally outplayed, the first 40 minutes, especially, that was where the game was lost. It's too bad. Two points slipped away. Every game is important.
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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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You know what, I'm sure that's exactly what he wants. He's a competitive guy. I go back to the Olympics, when he lost to Finland 5-0 in his first game. He came his next game against Canada and stopped 54 out of 54. I watched him play that game, and he was outstanding. He's that type of person.
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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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Obviously, it could have been worse. You don't even want to think of what the worst could have been.