Mark Roe

And that's not something that, you know, anyone wants to be in April or early May golfing if you're playing in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

And joining us down the Maple Toyota hotline is Peter Laviolette.

So I don't know if I should be talking golf at this point because I know he's all business usually when it comes to the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Peter, I might as well ask you, when your season ended, how quickly were you out on the course and getting away from the game and playing something that you try to hold off on playing golf as long as you can during the hockey season?

Well, Lavia, unfortunately, the team that plays in this city has been able to golf for the last few weeks because the Toronto Maple Leafs, for the first time since 2016, did not make the playoffs.

And it has been, to put it mildly, a wild week for this organization.

Take me through the coach's perspective of you have that press conference, you have your best player potentially deciding, I want to move away from this situation and he might be playing somewhere else next year.

And then you get the number one pick in the draft.

How quickly, especially with the best player element, how quickly are you talking to your GM when you read a story like we saw on The Athletic this week?

I love you.

I was going to say, you know, yeah, your former team looks pretty good as they play your former team.

And and there are two teams that you got a lot of success with.

And it's so great to get your perspective of the Stanley Cup playoffs because you've gone on deep runs and they've all looked a little differently with different types of teams.

And, you know, we're still just just getting into the second round.

But who's the team that impresses you the most so far this postseason?

Peter Laviolette joining us on Overdrive.

And Lavi, you've seen it all in the Stanley Cup playoffs, including a very improbable run in 2010 with the Flyers.

You were hired in the middle of the season.

You got to the Stanley Cup final.

You had that epic comeback against Boston.