Peter Laviolette

Yeah, I mean, it can be specific.

Again, I don't think anybody or certainly a coach, like when you go into a game, you do your best to prepare for the opposition.

You do your best to prepare for individual players.

You do your best to prepare your own team, whether it might be power play or penalty kill or five on five, like you want to be ready.

I think that's in life, though, not necessarily only in a hockey interview.

And when you go and interview anywhere in life or if you're preparing for anything that might come your way, I think that you want to be prepared.

You want to be ready.

So knowledge of the situation, I think, is always important with regard to that.

You don't want to walk into any situation.

You don't want to walk into your team and say, hey, what are we doing in the neutral zone?

And you're looking and saying, wow, I'm not sure.

Let me go check.

You need answers.

You need to know what's going on.

So I think the same thing just goes in life in general, interviewing for hockey, interviewing for life.

Just be ready more than anything.

But, yeah, I think you should be ready.

I think for the most part, there's always conversations, you know, with the GM.

It's the general manager's job is to, you know, listen to agents or players if they're talking about a trade.

I don't necessarily know that that's the coach's job.