Peter Laviolette

It's their forecheck.

It's the way that they slam the offensive zone.

It's the way that they close fouls.

forward in the neutral zone on defense.

It's not this passive backward game.

And then in the D zone coverage, I mean, it's quick to close as a five-man unit.

So there's not a lot of time and space.

It's about winning races back to the net.

It's about getting above them on the rush.

And so all of that thing has, all those things have to be done really quick and with pace.

And then you get a chance.

But there's been so many teams that have played Carolina.

And really, if you look at it, they don't come out on the right.

Maybe they come out on the right side of the score, but they don't come out on the right side of the analytics or the numbers or the scoring chances, whatever it might be.

I mean, it's too easy to say that it's Carolina and Colorado, but it is.

If you just watch them play, and they're both playing good teams, especially Colorado playing Minnesota.

And yet Colorado seems to have their way with it a little bit.

And the one thing about Colorado is that you've got to make sure defensively that you're above them all the time from the offensive zone, the neutral zone, and then the interior and the defensive zone.

Like you have to make sure there's so much speed and attack off of that game.

It seems like they're hard to beat.