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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

Because I don't think it's Gallant that brought that out of them. I said that in the post in the bold part you highlighted and then topped up in the following statement.

That team was going to have that attitude this year anyways. It was a bunch of guys that were pissed off that they were cut by their teams and weren't wanted. It would have covered up for Gulutzan's weakness.

I doubt Gallant had to come in and get that group fired up with a big "nobody believes in you" speech in pre-season. Those guys were going to come out with that attitude anyways.

It's not like Gallant's teams in Florida played with that "chip" on their shoulder. They made the playoffs 1 out of 3 years, didn't win a playoff series, and he was fired on the back of a bad shooting run.

The neat thing about Vegas is that pretty much every game, they were playing against somebody’s old team. And were acutely aware of it.

Some good quotes in this article. I wish the Flames played like Vegas.

http://www.thehockeynews.com/news/ar...y-s-holy-grail

He doesn’t chase matchups the way so many coaches do, and there is rarely a day when the Golden Knights practice for more than 45 minutes. And while they use video as a tool, Gallant doesn’t believe in having his players sit through half-hour video sessions as a team. “I do a lot of my coaching on the bench,” Gallant said. “We don’t waste a lot of time. I tell my assistants, ‘Make sure when they come off the ice they know when they did something good and make sure they know when they did something bad.’ It’s a little reinforcement, but 80 percent of the time it’s positive reinforcement.”

But even Gallant downplayed the revenge factor early in the season until he couldn’t help but notice that guys on his roster playing against their former teams were coming up big. “I’ve been in that position before, and there’s no better feeling than scoring against your old team,” Neal said. “It’s a different player’s team every night. When you play your old team, you want to play well. You want to score and you want to do everything to win the game. Do we have a chip on our shoulders? Of course we do. When you’re left unprotected, you have something to prove.”

There are times when the Knights get the puck in their end and immediately move it up the ice to a forward speeding out of the zone. It creates a ton of pressure on opponents and has them on their heels just seconds after they’re on the attack. And it’s working to perfection in most cases. “We saw our forward group, and we thought with the Marchessaults and Smiths, they don’t want to be bumpin’ and bangin’, that’s not their style,” Gallant said. “So let’s get the puck up to them with a good, fast transition game. Every team does it, but it seemed to work well with our group. Let’s face it, 90 percent of the systems are the same, and the biggest thing is how your players execute and how you manage your players. I haven’t done anything different as a coach with this group. I can’t say there’s anything special about what is going on. Some nights I try to figure it out myself.”

Edit: one more quote I liked

When it comes to coaching, Gallant most closely resembles the man who coached him in his best years in Detroit, Jacques Demers, with a little Pat Quinn and Pat Burns mixed in for good measure. “I played my best hockey for Jacques,” Gallant said. “Because he left me alone.”