Paul Maurice

Maurice revealed that, if anything, he should've left the Jets prior to his resignation in December 2021.

It’s exactly the way I felt about it and I felt about it after I left, too. “So you get to see people and you realize that you had a bigger impact than you thought that a half hour out of your day at a hospital would have brought to people. One thing Maurice never lost sight of during his Jets tenure is the importance of having a positive impact outside the context of Winnipeg’s on-ice performance. None of this is meant to convey that Maurice’s departure was anything other than what he says — and what we see — it was. [Blake Wheeler](https://theathletic.com/nhl/player/blake-wheeler-kyiBjNke8utWBW0I/), [Mark Scheifele](https://theathletic.com/nhl/player/mark-scheifele-SeBCkfBlEaJjcbzm/), Dustin Byfuglien and others to set the on-ice and off-ice standards, to watch the Jets at the end of Maurice’s tenure was to believe he had lost count. For all of Winnipeg’s now ex-coach Maurice’s words about statues, captaincy and Stanley Cups in Scheifele’s future, I get the sense that all the Jets centre wanted was to win. “You invest so much into it and you don’t separate the personal and the professional,” Maurice said when asked if his return to Winnipeg will make him emotional. Grant one of those days as a rest (or travel) day and Florida still had one more day to work with. I do know that, if he had desperately wanted to make that time, Maurice would have been able to do it. I guess that’s a question for the fans.” The implication is that last year’s Jets did not, in fact, have a plan for everything. I’m cheering for the organization, for the fans,” Maurice said.

Kyle Connor scored twice and added an assist to help the Jets spoil Paul Maurice's return to Winnipeg with a 5-2 victory over the Florida Panthers on ...

The contest was the last of a five-game road trip by the Panthers … “It was good on the bench, it was good in the stands. “He’s a good one.” … I think it’s been awesome for me, it’s been awesome for a lot of us. Obviously, we didn’t get the result, but pretty positive.” “It feels good to score in this league,” Dalpe said. “It’s more during the national anthems — one of my favourite things is the national anthems,” Maurice said. The left-winger has been on a heater recently, putting up 11 points (five goals, six assists) in his last seven appearances. It was on us to come out and I thought we responded really well.” “We knew what we needed to do. The game marked the first time Maurice faced his former team. After coaching the Jets for parts of nine seasons, the 55-year-old left abruptly midway through last year's campaign.

Paul Maurice led the Jets to some of the high points in franchise history. As he returns to Canada with the Panthers, he's still building his vision in ...

He was the coach of the Carolina Hurricanes when they moved from Hartford, Connecticut, and guided them from the dregs of the Eastern Conference in the mid-1990s to the 2002 Stanley Cup Finals. Before he took over in Florida, Maurice was best known as a steward for rebuilding teams. After winning the Presidents’ Trophy last year, the Panthers sit outside postseason position, but his hire won’t be judged on what Florida does in the regular season. For Florida, the move has yielded more complicated results. For the Jets, the change has worked out so far. So it’ll always be a special place.”

New florida panthers coach paul maurice returns to winnipeg manitoba to face the jets, a team coached for nine seasons on tuesday dec 6 2022.

“I am looking forward to the memories that you get by accident,” Maurice said. “I’m going to kind of let it just happen when I get there. ”We had talked to a few people and when we spoke to Paul, it was overwhelming. They understand the loss (of the team to Arizona) so the connection they have is unusual and important. They went from being a team that had not won a playoff game much less a series and built it into a very good team. “You can tell his intellect right away, but is emotional side — his E.Q. — in how conveyed ideas … “When you’ve had a 26-year coaching professional hockey career, you know they need a new voice,’’ Maurice said. So that connection there between the fans and the players is unique. His mastery of the game, his presence, the way he communicated with us, in tandem with his record and the way he succeeded in communicating the game to us. Of course, a lot of things had to go down from January in Winnipeg until he was hired in the heat of a South Florida summer. “It took them years to build it and they did so through the draft.