Peter Laviolette
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So specialty teams, I think, definitely factors into it.
I don't think it goes untouched anymore.
Oh, dog, I think it used to be a little bit more.
Now there's so much video on it.
There's so much time dedicated in practice to the power play and the penalty kill.
I actually think that the penalty kill probably gets a little bit less attention in practice because oftentimes a lot of your power play guys, like your good players, they're killing penalties as well.
And so you only have so much time out on the ice.
But we did in New York once in a while, we would flip it around.
And we would say, OK, these are the power play units.
Penalty killers are working.
Or we would take a couple shifts at the end of it just to get rotations down or routes down on the penalty kill.
But I think it gets so much more attention now because of that importance of it through the year to build it and then in the playoffs to have it when you need it.
Those are just, you know, what I'm saying.
Yeah, what I'm saying, O-Dog, is in a series.
You're talking about just an isolated series.
You're talking about moving on, right?
It's all about moving on.
It's all about getting out of the first round.
It's all about winning that second round once you get there, and then that's behind you, and now it's the third round.
If in the third round a goaltender throws out,