Peter Laviolette
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Darlene really getting a chance to show with those other two guys the impact that he could have as he grows through a playoff series, and he gets that opportunity to shine.
I think he's as good as the others, but...
He's certainly in that category, and he has that opportunity in the playoffs here.
But I don't think you want to do anything to try and curb that either.
Well, you're talking about moving the building a couple feet by the fans and the way they react to the game?
I think Montreal is one of those buildings.
It's hard not to get juiced up when you walk onto the ice in Montreal and sometimes it goes dark and they've got the...
They've got one of those songs going on, and the players that were around 40 years ago, 30 years ago, 20 years ago, and the highlights, you can just feel it kind of building inside of it.
Buffalo, I think, is a really tough place to play.
You know, my first year was in the Nassau Coliseum.
And, you know, it wasn't a wow type of building, but the ceiling was really low.
We played Toronto in that first round.
I could not even โ there's nobody that could hear me on the bench.
You know, not my players, not my assistant coaches.
It was just so loud in there.
You know, I think a lot โ it's playoffs, and everybody kind of gets that way.
everybody's building is probably pretty good.
I've been in Vegas, and Vegas can be really loud, really crazy.
There's just great building.
I think it's just the playoff hockey that brings it out, you know, and out of the fans and out of the players.