Peter Laviolette
Peter Laviolette
Peter Philip Laviolette Jr.is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman and current head coach of the National Hockey League's Nashville Predators. He has previously held this position with the New York Islanders, Carolina Hurricanes, and Philadelphia Flyers. In 2006, he coached the Hurricanes to a Stanley Cup...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth7 December 1964
CityFranklin, MA
choice detroit name played usa
When Don and I talked, Chris' name popped up immediately. Not only because of how well he has played with Detroit this season, but because of the way he has represented USA Hockey... it made the choice easy.
worst
Obviously, it could have been worse. You don't even want to think of what the worst could have been.
finish picked somebody talk win
Somebody has to be the favorite, somebody has to be picked to win the bronze, and somebody has to be picked to finish seventh. There's a lot of talk about us ? not in those first two categories, but the third. To me, that's irrelevant.
focus games great playing season time trust whether win winning won
I mean, it's a great accomplishment any time you win your division. I think the focus for us is to keep winning games and playing well. Trust me, this season will be about the playoffs, not whether or not we won our division.
dozen fire half hit night offense post walk
It was a frustrating night for the players, myself, the fans...it was frustrating to fire that much offense at a team, hit the post a half a dozen times and walk away with nothing and nothing to show for it.
expected fatigue game issue last schedule win
It was a fatigue issue tonight. There just wasn't a whole lot of energy. I'm not making excuses, because we had a game on the schedule tonight. It's the last game at the end of a long trip, and we're expected to win that game.
bouncing fight guys liked seem
The first two periods, I really liked the way we played. We had to fight and claw, it didn't seem like it was bouncing our way. The guys went back to work.
control czech highly lies move puck sharp skilled strength
This is a highly skilled (Slovak) team, a lot like the Czech team. They want puck possession. They want to control the play with the puck. They want to move the puck. Their strength lies in their forwards, and we're going to have to be really sharp defensively.
fell seemed tonight wrong
It just seemed like something was going to go wrong tonight and it did. We fell down on the first goal.
best ended four killer last minute needed penalty plus
In the end, we needed everybody, from all four (penalty) killers at all different times during the kill, plus the goaltender, and the goaltender ended up being the best penalty killer in the last minute and a half.
best earned guarantee team
I can guarantee that's not why they're on the team. They're on the team because they've earned it. Bret Hedican is on his way to one of his best years in the league.
best days five focused four last numbers playing week weeks
We've focused in on the last four or five weeks because you want someone playing well in that position, you want a goaltender that's hot. A week or 10 days ago, he had some of the best numbers in the NHL.
came except five flat guys minute period playing start
We were playing well except for that five minute period where we came out flat to start the third. Then the guys went back to work.
against came played spark stronger urgency
I think we came out much better and much stronger tonight. We had more urgency on the puck. We played with a spark that we didn't have against Latvia.