Peter Laviolette

And those two teams to me look like they got it going on.

No, I think there's coaching that goes on with what you're talking about.

You know, everybody needs a message and a direction and a plan out on the ice.

I do think that you don't want to curb the creativity.

I mean, I've worked with some really good players.

Like in New York, Artemi Panarin, I think he's brilliant.

Like I think he's brilliant out on the ice.

And so the last thing you want to do is –

You know, we had one year, I think we had one hundred and my first year at one hundred and twenty five points or something like that.

One hundred twenty one.

He was up there.

And the last thing you want to do is is take that and try to tone that down.

But again, it gets to a point where you need some structure and they need to understand they still have to be

taught or shown or, you know, what it is that we're trying to do, whether it's back checking or getting above the rush or, you know, off of a forecheck, whatever it might be.

And I'm not saying him.

I'm just saying I think there's coaching that goes on with all players.

But I do think that there's more, you know, there's a little bit more leeway, a little bit more wiggle room with the elite players.

Roman Yossi was a really good offensive defenseman.

You know, back when I had him, you know, he's 25, 27, 28, 29 years old.

he was elite.