Peter Laviolette

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,

I don't know, a 975 save, a 968, whatever, some ridiculously high number.

He lets up zero goals, one goals, two goals, zero goals, and they sweep 4-0.

That team's moving on.

It's because of the goaltending in that series.

And so I think that the importance of it, of working on it throughout the course of the season, is it can't be understated.

Like, you have to carve out...

I'm going to say if we had a practice, last three or four organizations, like I said, maybe not so much back in the day when we first had you.

We did, but maybe it's just grown to a point where people understand how important it is on the penalty kill.

And so they practice it.

They show the video.

They work with individual groups just to make sure that you're dialed in because you can –

Get to the playoffs in the regular season, and then you can move out of a series by being hot at something.

Goaltending, defense, and especially teams.

Pick one of those three.

There's a good chance you can come out of a series.

I think that sometimes it can be performance related and I'm not sure that that one was necessarily.

He came in and did the job and good call by Lindy and a gutsy call because you're right, the numbers could have swung to 3-1 and then it's really tough, it's really difficult.

I remember, you know, Martin Gerber, the year we won the Cup in Carolina, Martin Gerber was the goaltender the entire season.