I’ve been saying for years, Maurice elevates bad teams to being average teams… give him a good team and he will go far. He showed that in Winnipeg and in subsequent seasons took the blame for what people weren’t willing to accept about that group of players.
Now here he is, with an actual good group of players, two Finals and a Cup in two years.
He is a very good coach, one of the most experienced in the league but still not a dinosaur. He has seen it all. At this point he has nothing else to prove.