Peter Laviolette

And I got about halfway there and Rod Brindamore had stood up and you could hear his voice in the locker room

as he was addressing the team and the confidence in which he spoke.

And I pumped the brakes right there, and I said, Roddy's in there.

I'm out of there.

I'm not going in there now.

I'm not following that message and that voice.

I think when a captain stands up in a room, even during the regular season, if he can stand up in the room and grab the team –

that's when the coach should just turn around and walk the other way and let those words stand.

And so we were lucky, too.

We had to fly back to Carolina for Game 7.

There was a couple days before the Game 7.

And so we could lick our wounds on the first, you know, on the flight home or whatever.

But then you have a practice.

before the game because it was a couple of days and it was a chance to go out there and sweat as a group and get really positive and take Rod's message and put things together and have meetings and feel good about it.

And arguably one of the best games that our team played the entire year was game seven against Edmonton.

I think it was a 3-2 hockey game.

Kim Ward made a save with I think maybe six minutes to go that kept us at 3-2 and Justin Williams scored

scored an empty netter and we ended up winning.

But it was just a, that was a phenomenal moment for me when Rod, and that was his leadership.

You know, that was Roddy and his leadership and what he was capable of.