Laviolette Addresses Media On Sticking With Player

"He was out for a good majority of the games, worked his tail off every game, every practice, every day. Real positive attitude. The last games that we played him in, prior to him jumping back in the lineup, he was excellent. I think he had a [two]-point night, he was plus-four, he played extremely well. He really didn't deserve to come out of the lineup, but he did. Those are decisions that you have to make sometimes. He's gotten an opportunity to jump back in. He's waited, he's been patient, worked hard to get the opportunity and he's jumped back in and he's played excellent again. So for a guy that's been here the entire year, and the way our team has played in the last three or four games, we haven't made a lineup change yet."