Former players recall fond memories of playing under Peter Laviolette during the Hurricanes' championship season.
RALEIGH, N.C. — With the Hurricanes struggling to start the 2003-04 season, then-Carolina general manager Jim Rutherford wondered if it was time to move on from longtime coach Paul Maurice. With his team playing in late November on Long Island, he reached out to 38-year-old Peter Laviolette, whom the had recently fired. Advertisement There was one problem. Laviolette thought it was a prank call.
The Hurricanes, who had home-ice advantage, then had to prepare to head to Montreal, where an entire hockey-crazed city would be rooting against them. Advertisement Recchi, whom Carolina acquired at the deadline, said he felt no panic going into Game 3. That wasn’t a unanimous sentiment. “I would say we had s— in the pants,” Whitney said. Before the team left for Montreal, Laviolette gathered the players in the dressing room.
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