Peter Laviolette

And all of a sudden the game's completely in a different direction and quickly.

But I think you just let them go.

Oh, if they've been doing it their whole life, they're probably going to do it in the biggest stage as well.

So you think about the Montreal series against Carolina where Montreal came out and they snuck game one out of there, you know what I mean?

And so there's time now for Roddy and his staff to get back in there and to show what they've been doing the entire year.

I thought it just got a little bit loose defensively, which is not...

necessarily the characteristic of Carolina.

Like, they're usually pretty good at a consistent game.

And so, for me, it's a little bit of a wake-up call.

You get that momentum.

Maybe you think it's going to be easy.

Maybe a quick breath.

There was the timeout just for a second where Torch rallied his troops, and you just think it's going to be easy.

You take a quick breath, and sometimes that's all it takes.

I thought the goal at the end of the first period was huge.

And then, for me, as a building block, to go in and say –

win the second period now, like take the second period down, and now you come in with a lead, you come in with tied or a lead, setting it up for the third.

But they came out and just kind of blew the doors off it at the start of the second period.

And everything went in.

It was kind of uncharacteristic of them.