Peter Laviolette

In that first year where there's transition, getting them on a page and getting them out of the hole and getting them going towards finding their way back to the playoffs and hopefully a Stanley Cup.

I'd be speculating.

Oh, you know, I truly would be speculating.

I can talk to you about some of my own situations.

Oh, we love that stuff.

I've been hired and fired here and here and there.

I mean, there's been a time or two maybe when I get hired or fired, but I couldn't even speculate to that and what it may have, may not gone on in that room.

So I'm going to stay 100% clear of that.

There's been times where,

You know, first of all, I kind of told my wife, I said, I'm never going to get caught off guard.

You know what I mean?

Like, if I get hired on Tuesday and fired on Friday, I'll be like, all right, pack it up again.

We're out of here.

But I do – for me, there have been times when I knew that it was not going to be there.

Like –

Sometimes there'll be a message or a call that says, hey, meet me in my office in the morning at 8.

Well, for me at that time, it's time to rally the troops at home, let the kids know in school that something's going to be said, that we might be heading out of town for a week and just to get out of there.

But I couldn't even – don't want to speculate, couldn't speculate.

It's a tough thing when change happens for anybody individually.

Whether it's a player that gets traded, a coach gets fired, or a GM gets fired, and their families, and there's a lot that goes into it.