Peter Laviolette

We won the game for nothing.

And then we went back home to game five.

And with, like I said, we started him again, but we ended up going in a different direction with it.

You know, I don't go too far backwards.

I think sometimes you, you know, just going in for the interview, first of all, I think you dig a little bit just to find out, you know, what information that you can on what was good, what wasn't good.

And I'm not talking necessarily about Toronto or Chief.

Chief's a good coach and I know him.

I'm just saying that for whoever goes in there, I think you find out a little bit.

But then at that point for me, it,

It's more all about what you can do for that organization to take them and move them forward.

And so I always find it's important to have a direct plan on what it is, the way that you want to play, the identity in which you want to play, the culture in which you want to build, how you're going to get there.

And that's through practice.

That's through moving it up and down the ice in practice, grinding on the ice, the compete in practice, taking that into games when it's not good in practice.

putting it out there in front of the play.

Like, you have to build it almost from anew.

And very rarely do I go backwards.

I don't go backwards in a press conference.

I don't go backwards with a team.

I only move forward.

I only talk about what it is that we're going to do and how we're going to move forward.