Peter Laviolette
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At this point, right, you need them.
This isn't about ice time.
This isn't about –
message sending.
There's none of that going on.
So I think you need to talk to these guys, show them the video, keep putting them in opportunities where maybe they can be successful to try and find it.
And I don't think much changes, not just talking about that line, but just in general in the playoffs.
I think that your game break, your type players, they know who they are.
They know what their job is.
They know what their responsibility is.
You know, anything you can do to encourage their great play, I think that's always a positive thing.
But it's not like special messages like, okay, it's this time of the year, it's playoffs, and we've got to get going now.
They know that.
And so they have the ability to completely change the direction of a game.
And, you know, you start in game one.
I thought the Carolina fans are unbelievable.
And to watch that happen,
building just completely getting gulfed with the red and the energy and the juice that was in the building.
You would have thought that the building moved two feet to the right and that it was going to be 10-0.
And then all of a sudden it just kind of turned and guys started making plays and, like you said, game breakers.