Can you talk about the play of Scott Hartnell tonight?
He had a lot of hits and seemed to play a huge role in tonight’s game. COACH LAVIOLETTE: He’s been excellent all through the Playoffs. He’s been excellent for us. Especially the last four or five games, really started to notice him physically and on the scoreboard, he’s playing with a lot of confidence right now. That line was terrific. Q. Peter, two games if a row and the team seems to get stronger as the game goes on. Third periods you start to dominate and even in the overtime. Your system, what is it about the conditioning of this team? COACH LAVIOLETTE: At this point, yes. I mean, we seem to go up and down the ice, and as games wore on , I thought that was in the Montreal Series as well. It seemed the longer the game went, the better we were. We still had a lot of jam and a lot of speed to our game, so I would agree. Q. Coach, you had such a tremendous third period but couldn’t bust through for the tie-breaking goal. I wonder what the mood was like going into the overtime? COACH L
