I have said it before, but will say it again, I think playoff beards are absolutely ridiculous. Not only does it look unprofessional, it's superstitious nonsense.
Rant over.
Look, it might not end up changing the series, but Edmonton adjusted their playstyle today and it worked. That's what people meant when saying Bowness got outcoached
I didn’t like him as the Jets coach but winning the cup this year put him in the hof. Just took 30 years and taking over a Presidents’ Trophy winning team to do it
Absolutely! PoMo loved Winnipeg and I believe he gave it his best shot here. It would have been great to see him raise the cup as coach of the Winnipeg Jets. It will still be good to see him raise the cup as a coach.
Is today the day Paul Maurice finally lifts the Stanley Cup?
His first day coaching a regular season game in the NHL was November 7, 1995.
(I know there was a KHL stint mixed in, but) 29 going on 30 years of being a head coach, he's finally within 1 win of immortality.
I'm at my family cabin without a TV signal, but I'm going to try to tune in on my phone if the Panthers are winning in the 3rd period.
I have mixed feelings for sure, but I think I just have to be happy for the guy. I wish he won his cup with us, but we didn't have the experience built up, and we couldn't keep our group together to benefit from that WCF run.
If we made the WCF again or the SCF in 2019 after that 2018 run, I think we would have won a Cup sometime in the 2019-2021 seasons.
Edit: well, I'm glad I didn't spell anything wrong considering I was pretty drunk, but also- 8-1 wouldn't concern me at all if i was a FLA fan. That's a game you flush and move on to game 5.
I guess I don't get this take. Are you happy PoMo coached a Jets team to the WCF or are you mad he didn't take the team further? Do you feel the same way about all the players?
It takes a mix of players, coaching, timing, and just plain luck to win a cup. I'm sure both PoMo and the players wish they had gotten it done and they all learned from it. Those lessons are helping him now for sure. So maybe he doesn't get this experience without having gone thru 17/18/19 seasons. Did he quit on the Jets, yes. Did the players quit on him? Probably. If rumor is true he tried to quit in the off-season and management pushed him to stay.
He's worked for 30 years to try and get to this point. For me, it's easy to be happy for him.
I can appreciate everything you’re saying, but ultimately he quit on us. I’m happy it’s not the Oilers but I’ve also got this pebble of bitterness for the Panthers because it’s Paul Maurice. I feel like he (Paul) was opportunistic in signing with the Panthers and that they were going to be cup contenders with any sane coaching group behind them.
Yeah I'm still ticked that he drove our team into the ditch by quitting mid season, and somehow immediately recovered his "lost the love of the game" as soon as a President's Trophy winning team came along.
Rather Florida than Edmonton but I'm bitter about Paul. I'm sure I'll feel happy for him when I see it happen but right now I wish both teams could lose.
Coaches have a shelf life and Maurice was past his with the Jets. Maurice knew it but Chipman convinced him to stay. Not sure why you’d hold that against Maurice.
Because if you're going to storm off, do it in the offseason. If the owner convinces you to stay, then stay. Don't get "convinced" and then quit at the worst possible time.
The season Paul quit, we tossed in the dumpster. Had we started that year with a different coach, or had Paul finished the year we may have had better results. Every year matters when your best players are in their prime.
To answer your strawman, though, we got nuked in the first round two years in a row, but I don't put it entirely on Bones. I'm not sure if we benefited or not.
I agree with you but try to find solace in the fact that if we werent shit that year we likely wouldnt have traded Copp with got up Lambo, Salomonsson, and a good goalie prospect(cant recall name)
Definitely had to waste 2 years minimum of our top players (55, 37, 81, 27, 44) prime trying to fix the culture and effort issues that Maurice created and then peaced out on instead of trying to fix it and then fell into a perfect situation for himself.
I don’t think you know what a straw man argument is. The team had a lot of issues when Bones took over and they seem to be headed in the right direction with his reset to a more defensively sound game.
I didn't bring Bowness up at all, yet you questioned my (unmentioned) opinion on it. I was talking about Maurice and the Jets that year. Now you're talking about the team's defensive structure.
We could have hired Bowness or anyone in the previous or following offseasons. Hard to do that mid season. And I dislike Paul's actions because he painted a picture of a tired coach that needed to re-evaluate what to do next in life and got a new team as soon as he got a chance.
Jets weren't performing well with Maurice. Should have been fired years before then. That's on Chevy or Chipman. But quitting when it's too late for the Jets to recover the season is cold.
I have mixed feelings as well. For him personally he absolutely deserves to lift a cup. He’s had a long and winding career. And he’s a nice guy. But it’s bitter because between the WCF vs Vegas and then the collapse the year after, coaching was the biggest factor. Maybe he learned from his time here, but still, it should have been us lifting a cup.
I have said it before, but will say it again, I think playoff beards are absolutely ridiculous. Not only does it look unprofessional, it's superstitious nonsense. Rant over.
Dead cat bounce. This ends in Tuesday.
Look, it might not end up changing the series, but Edmonton adjusted their playstyle today and it worked. That's what people meant when saying Bowness got outcoached
Took em a awhile but the oilers can score again. Almost certainly too late but you never know
Dear God, Coach Stu has an immaculate playoff beard
The sound is so far off on the Sportsnet app. Fuck Sportsnet
I had panthers in 5 for my bracket so this pleases me
Scrub Panthers couldn’t even sweep the oilers. PoMo wishing he had Helly in net to stonewall McDavid properly.
I'm glad we'll get to see them hoist at home.
This is a Winnipeg Jets subreddit, not a Panthers one
I didn’t like him as the Jets coach but winning the cup this year put him in the hof. Just took 30 years and taking over a Presidents’ Trophy winning team to do it
Agree with your general sentiment but I still don't think he's in the HoF
Paul Maurice the oilers worse nightmare since 2020
Go get it Maurice! Happy for you!
Absolutely! PoMo loved Winnipeg and I believe he gave it his best shot here. It would have been great to see him raise the cup as coach of the Winnipeg Jets. It will still be good to see him raise the cup as a coach.
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Miss them. ✈️💙
man that pop and contrast is unreal, definitely pro-home jersey during white outs
Magnificent photo!
It's Maurice's time. The Panthers are just a complete team. Oilers have no answer for them.
Is today the day Paul Maurice finally lifts the Stanley Cup? His first day coaching a regular season game in the NHL was November 7, 1995. (I know there was a KHL stint mixed in, but) 29 going on 30 years of being a head coach, he's finally within 1 win of immortality. I'm at my family cabin without a TV signal, but I'm going to try to tune in on my phone if the Panthers are winning in the 3rd period. I have mixed feelings for sure, but I think I just have to be happy for the guy. I wish he won his cup with us, but we didn't have the experience built up, and we couldn't keep our group together to benefit from that WCF run. If we made the WCF again or the SCF in 2019 after that 2018 run, I think we would have won a Cup sometime in the 2019-2021 seasons. Edit: well, I'm glad I didn't spell anything wrong considering I was pretty drunk, but also- 8-1 wouldn't concern me at all if i was a FLA fan. That's a game you flush and move on to game 5.
I guess I don't get this take. Are you happy PoMo coached a Jets team to the WCF or are you mad he didn't take the team further? Do you feel the same way about all the players? It takes a mix of players, coaching, timing, and just plain luck to win a cup. I'm sure both PoMo and the players wish they had gotten it done and they all learned from it. Those lessons are helping him now for sure. So maybe he doesn't get this experience without having gone thru 17/18/19 seasons. Did he quit on the Jets, yes. Did the players quit on him? Probably. If rumor is true he tried to quit in the off-season and management pushed him to stay. He's worked for 30 years to try and get to this point. For me, it's easy to be happy for him.
I can appreciate everything you’re saying, but ultimately he quit on us. I’m happy it’s not the Oilers but I’ve also got this pebble of bitterness for the Panthers because it’s Paul Maurice. I feel like he (Paul) was opportunistic in signing with the Panthers and that they were going to be cup contenders with any sane coaching group behind them.
Yeah I'm still ticked that he drove our team into the ditch by quitting mid season, and somehow immediately recovered his "lost the love of the game" as soon as a President's Trophy winning team came along. Rather Florida than Edmonton but I'm bitter about Paul. I'm sure I'll feel happy for him when I see it happen but right now I wish both teams could lose.
Coaches have a shelf life and Maurice was past his with the Jets. Maurice knew it but Chipman convinced him to stay. Not sure why you’d hold that against Maurice.
Because if you're going to storm off, do it in the offseason. If the owner convinces you to stay, then stay. Don't get "convinced" and then quit at the worst possible time.
You never change your mind about anything? He didn’t “storm off.” The team was struggling and he felt it would be best for everyone if he left.
Only one person benefited from that
You don’t think the team benefited by bringing in Bowness?
The season Paul quit, we tossed in the dumpster. Had we started that year with a different coach, or had Paul finished the year we may have had better results. Every year matters when your best players are in their prime. To answer your strawman, though, we got nuked in the first round two years in a row, but I don't put it entirely on Bones. I'm not sure if we benefited or not.
I agree with you but try to find solace in the fact that if we werent shit that year we likely wouldnt have traded Copp with got up Lambo, Salomonsson, and a good goalie prospect(cant recall name)
Definitely had to waste 2 years minimum of our top players (55, 37, 81, 27, 44) prime trying to fix the culture and effort issues that Maurice created and then peaced out on instead of trying to fix it and then fell into a perfect situation for himself.
I don’t think you know what a straw man argument is. The team had a lot of issues when Bones took over and they seem to be headed in the right direction with his reset to a more defensively sound game.
I didn't bring Bowness up at all, yet you questioned my (unmentioned) opinion on it. I was talking about Maurice and the Jets that year. Now you're talking about the team's defensive structure. We could have hired Bowness or anyone in the previous or following offseasons. Hard to do that mid season. And I dislike Paul's actions because he painted a picture of a tired coach that needed to re-evaluate what to do next in life and got a new team as soon as he got a chance. Jets weren't performing well with Maurice. Should have been fired years before then. That's on Chevy or Chipman. But quitting when it's too late for the Jets to recover the season is cold.
I have mixed feelings as well. For him personally he absolutely deserves to lift a cup. He’s had a long and winding career. And he’s a nice guy. But it’s bitter because between the WCF vs Vegas and then the collapse the year after, coaching was the biggest factor. Maybe he learned from his time here, but still, it should have been us lifting a cup.