Peter Laviolette Quotes on Hockey (10 Quotes)

There's nothing to say you're going to win a hockey game just because you're better on paper. I think the Swiss proved that.

We had an obligation to show up and play a hockey game. What has been the cornerstone of our team, our work ethic and tenacity, was not there.

It's disappointing. We came here to win hockey games and it didn't happen. It's frustrating. But we know we're capable of winning a lot of hockey games, regardless of the opponent.

I don't think that they're down. We just remain confident that we're going to win a hockey game.

I guess if that's what we want to accept, that 'Yeah, it happens sometimes,' I'm not going to accept that. We had an obligation to show up and play a hockey game tonight. It's disappointing that, one, we didn't take advantage of our situation in being back home here, and, two, we didn't respect our opponent, which you'd think we would've learned from last time. Hopefully Washington's got our attention for Wednesday night. I'd hate to see the same effort and same preparation again. It's unacceptable, it's inexcusable.

The speed and the skating just weren't the same. We tried to work through it, tried to muster up the energy and guts to get it done. It was just a little bit ugly and not our typical brand of hockey.

There's still more for us to give, more for us to do. It didn't go our way tonight, but there's still a lot of hockey to play.

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.

The game wasn't quite like the last four games, where we seemed like we were in a huge hole. It was a good back-and-forth game. I thought it had a good pace, and I thought in the third period we started to play a little bit more our style of hockey.

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.