Peter Laviolette

You know, we were up, I think, 3-1 in the series.

So that made it 3-2.

So we had to go to Edmonton for game six.

And I'm telling you that we got destroyed.

I mean destroyed.

I remember looking up at the second period and the shots were like 28-6.

And we ended up losing the game.

I think it might have been 4-0 or 5-0, something like that.

And something had to be said after the game.

That was one of those times where I would go in the locker room because you had to regroup and you had to adjust and something needed to be said or needed to be done.

And I got about halfway there and Rod Brindamore had stood up and you could hear his voice in the locker room

as he was addressing the team and the confidence in which he spoke.

And I pumped the brakes right there, and I said, Roddy's in there.

I'm out of there.

I'm not going in there now.

I'm not following that message and that voice.

I think when a captain stands up in a room, even during the regular season, if he can stand up in the room and grab the team...

That's when the coach would just turn around and walk the other way and let those words stand.

And so we were lucky, too.

We had to fly back to Carolina for Game 7.