How To Horde The Customer

Coach Vee faces the Stanley Cup press Horde

Q. Boston obviously has been really good five on five. Last night it seemed the game almost turned. Do you think because your team has been so good on the power play that perhaps your five on five plays gets overlooked sometimes?

COACH VIGNEAULT: I think what happened in last night's game, Boston came at us a little bit more aggressive than what we had seen on video. It took us a little while to adapt to that.

I think once we adapted towards the end of the second period, we were able to go a little bit quicker north/south, started to play a little bit quicker, a little bit faster. We got some good rush chances.

Obviously, if we can continue to do that, we're a good team when we're able to do that.

Q. Raffi Torres came to you, his fifth team, a former first round pick, a guy looking for work when the season started. Have you got the same motivated player you thought you'd get from him this year?

COACH VIGNEAULT: Surely we knew we were getting a very motivated player. I mean, went very late before we signed him. One of the things that we did as soon as we met Raffi, Mike and I, was to tell him he had a clean slate, just to come here and work hard, play to his strengths. We know Raffi sometimes plays a little bit outside the box, and we knew that. But you got to let him go to his strengths.

His attitude and his overall commitment have been real good since day one. We've had no issues with him.

Q. Can we get a very specific update on Hamhuis?

COACH VIGNEAULT: Day to day. That's as specific as we get.

Q. In the context of the Burrows/Bergeron incident, when you played, you were a tough customer, do you recall after the whistles, a funny anecdote that involved yourself on the ice?

COACH VIGNEAULT: Back then you didn't have a lot of scrums after the whistle. If something was going to happen, it was going to be a fight. It wasn't a lot of pushing and shoving. It was either, Let's go, or guys went back to their benches.

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