Pierre McGuire
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But that's one thing you got to stick and pin.
You got to eliminate that ability to sustain offense for more than 12 to 15 seconds.
I can tell you right now when Pittsburgh in 08 and 09 went to the Stanley Cup final, they lose in 08 to Detroit.
They win in 09.
One of the biggest things they preached was a seven second rule.
They didn't want to defend for longer than seven seconds.
And they pushed it.
I was down there on the bench at Coach Young.
That's too long.
Cut shorter, harder, closely.
I think Montreal needs to do a better job of eliminating the cycle quicker.
Yeah, they do.
So it's one of the things is you get entry, and then you don't make a good first pass, and then it's a scramble situation.
You're not dominating.
The actual penalty-killing team is dominating.
So that's what happened.
Montreal had access, but then they couldn't dominate.
They couldn't make the first pass.
It was a big problem.
It did.