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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We weren't able to find the back of the net again in the first period, and they found the back of ours. I think that works against you. We came out in the second period and started firing it in the net and found some success. We could've had a few more, but it didn't happen for us.
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We got lulled into a game that was not our brand of hockey. Then we kicked in, and we played Carolina Hurricanes hockey in the third period.