Peter Laviolette

You win that advantage, there's a good chance you're going to win the hockey game.

So, you know, for me, I still think that Montreal played a pretty good game.

I don't think it was a horrible game.

They blocked a lot of shots.

They forced a lot of shots to the outside.

They kept them from a defensive standpoint, I think, under 20 shots in the game.

And so, again, a pretty good game from them defensively.

I said it before.

I honestly think it's going to come down to them creating defensively.

And I said, Buffalo is going to score three or four and maybe five.

So in order to win a game, you have to score four or five or six.

Six is not easy to do, but unless you're in a different series than this one, then it's really easy to score six or nine or whatever it might be.

But this series from what, you know, Montreal was, that was the big thing for me is that they have to produce more than they did against Tampa.

They did a great job of blocking shots.

They did a great job defensively.

Their goalie played really well.

But in order to move on, you have to produce.

That top line's got to get going from a five-on-five standpoint, just production-wise.

Power play's okay, but you've got to have the big dogs producing in order to get past Buffalo.

I don't think it was a terrible game.