Laviolette Quotes

You talk about wins that we've had where we've come back, that was the gutsiest effort that I've seen by our group. - Peter Laviolette

You take a presence like (Stevens) out of the lineup ... it's hard to replace. He was a mountain to get around. - Peter Laviolette

You hear me say 'Offense, offense, offense,' but we didn't score many goals [in 2003-04] and we've got to fix the problem... But we want to be a good defensive team, too. It's important to have a good mix. - Peter Laviolette

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. - Peter Laviolette

You can't help but notice guys on other teams -- you're right there on the bench... Even though I will have some input, there are people who are scouting who will be seeing these players more often than I will. - Peter Laviolette

You can go down one of two roads. You can try to get through the game without getting booed to death or you can be the best player on the ice. I told him before the game that I wanted to hear his name as the first star. - Peter Laviolette

Winning's not so crazy. It wasn't easy. Things were bouncing funny out there it seems all night. Montreal plays a good skating game, a good fore-checking game. It doesn't translate to a smooth style game. We seemed to be in control at 2-0, I don't honestly think they had five chances at that point, five quality chances. That goal gave them some life and they ran with it. - Peter Laviolette

When you're down two goals, facing elimination in the third period, that's not the time you want to go to the (penalty) box. I think there was a lot of frustration setting in at that point. - Peter Laviolette

When you win nine in a row and then you lose one, you realize you don't want to taste that any more, so you'd better get back to work. - Peter Laviolette