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Peter Laviolette

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Laviolette on the Maple Leafs' head coaching position, the direction of the team and the Canadiens and Sabres' series

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.

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Laviolette on the Maple Leafs' head coaching position, the direction of the team and the Canadiens and Sabres' series

If in the third round a goaltender throws out,

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Laviolette on the Maple Leafs' head coaching position, the direction of the team and the Canadiens and Sabres' series

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

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Laviolette on the Maple Leafs' head coaching position, the direction of the team and the Canadiens and Sabres' series

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

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Laviolette on the Maple Leafs' head coaching position, the direction of the team and the Canadiens and Sabres' series

That team's moving on.

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Laviolette on the Maple Leafs' head coaching position, the direction of the team and the Canadiens and Sabres' series

It's because of the goaltending in that series.

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Laviolette on the Maple Leafs' head coaching position, the direction of the team and the Canadiens and Sabres' 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.

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Laviolette on the Maple Leafs' head coaching position, the direction of the team and the Canadiens and Sabres' series

Like, you have to carve out...

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Laviolette on the Maple Leafs' head coaching position, the direction of the team and the Canadiens and Sabres' series

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.

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Laviolette on the Maple Leafs' head coaching position, the direction of the team and the Canadiens and Sabres' series

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

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Laviolette on the Maple Leafs' head coaching position, the direction of the team and the Canadiens and Sabres' series

And so they practice it.

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Laviolette on the Maple Leafs' head coaching position, the direction of the team and the Canadiens and Sabres' series

They show the video.

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Laviolette on the Maple Leafs' head coaching position, the direction of the team and the Canadiens and Sabres' series

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

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Laviolette on the Maple Leafs' head coaching position, the direction of the team and the Canadiens and Sabres' series

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

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Laviolette on the Maple Leafs' head coaching position, the direction of the team and the Canadiens and Sabres' series

Goaltending, defense, and especially teams.

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Laviolette on the Maple Leafs' head coaching position, the direction of the team and the Canadiens and Sabres' series

Pick one of those three.

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Laviolette on the Maple Leafs' head coaching position, the direction of the team and the Canadiens and Sabres' series

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

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Laviolette on the Maple Leafs' head coaching position, the direction of the team and the Canadiens and Sabres' series

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

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Laviolette on the Maple Leafs' head coaching position, the direction of the team and the Canadiens and Sabres' series

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.

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Laviolette on the Maple Leafs' head coaching position, the direction of the team and the Canadiens and Sabres' series

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