\u201cYou can\u2019t buy experience, you have to live it, and going to the playoffs this year adds to that,\u201d he said. \u201cBefore the playoffs, Tampa was one team that scared me. Experience is an important thing and they have a lot of it. They know how to win. They have players who can win a series, make a difference, but so do the\u00a0Canadiens. That\u2019s why it\u2019s been so close.\u201d<\/p>\n
At this point in the series, Carbonneau weighs the psychological against the physical, the idea of facing the same team night after night putting the game as much between players\u2019 ears as in the corners and the dirty ice in front of the net.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know if there\u2019s a point when the mental game plays the bigger role,\u201d he said. \u201cI remember a defensive player in the NFL in the 1980s saying that his goal was to make the guy in front of him quit, just say, \u2018(To heck with) it. I\u2019m done, I don\u2019t want to play against him.\u2019 That\u2019s mental intimidation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t extraordinary on face-offs but I was good because I never wanted to lose one. I wanted to be sure the guy in front of me changed his style, have him think, \u2018If I can\u2019t beat him, I\u2019ll try something else.\u2019 And once he did that, I thought, \u2018I\u2019ve got him.\u2019”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYou can\u2019t buy experience, you have to live it, and going to the playoffs this year adds to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-641034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}