News Article: Paul Maurice resigns

[surixon]

Chevy just said Lowry will be coach for the rest of the year...

Lowry was a very good junior coach that from what I remember Joe saying runs a very aggressive scheme. He also has Stanley Cup winning pedigree as an assistant coach with the Kings. I am fully willing to give him a chance.

 

[gojetsgo]

I mean we've seen the assistant take over a number of times and do well so I'm not going to discount him. I think it's also premature to say he has the same message. He's his own coach with his own systems and messaging imo. I'd expect his schemes and messaging to be different then Moe's.

craig berube as an example

 

[hockeyarena]

chevy: "paul's going to be well taken care of moving forward"

listening to chevy speak, he was DONE with maurice.

 

[Do or Die]

Looks like he reads the boards

Then he knew it was time to leave.

 

[DRW204]

yup they just asked Chevy "were you going to fire paul"

chevy: "ughh uhh umm was i going to fire paul welll ummmm"

(they were going to fire paul)

i bet it's not even chevy's call to fire maurice.

 

[Ducky10]

If a nuclear weapon ever obliterates Canada Life Centre, I want to be standing next to Huddy.

 

[cbcwpg]

I mean we've seen the assistant take over a number of times and do well so I'm not going to discount him. I think it's also premature to say he has the same message. He's his own coach with his own systems and messaging imo. I'd expect his schemes and messaging to be different then Moe's.

I honestly hope so...

 

[Jetfaninflorida]

The bag skate showed that Maurice had nothing left in terms of influence with the team.

 

[WolfHouse]

Moving forward.... roster makeup and player usage should be interesting......given that this drove a lot of us, up a wall...

If I know how dads coach sons, Lowry will now be our 4C

 

[Derfel]

 

[Gabe Kupari]

Chevy just said Lowry will be coach for the rest of the year...

Dave is a good Coach who has coached in the whl and has been an nhl assistant for years not just with Winnipeg

Give him a chance. Besides all the real good guys are assistants with their current teams or running ncaa teams and will likely be available off season

Nobody gonna come in and change the world right now. Gotta give Dave time here. Might surprise.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Love Mo, but I remember being in the stands in Raleigh chanting "Mo must go" and then, a few years later, "Mo must go again". Every coach has his time.

The first time, we replaced him with Peter Laviolette. If you can manage that, I would recommend it. The second time, we replaced him with Kirk Muller, and I would definitely not recommend that.

He's the best interview in hockey, though. I still miss his press conferences. (Though Brindy learned a lot from him and gives a pretty great presser himself.)

Good luck to you guys.

 

[Channelcat]

chevy: "paul's going to be well taken care of moving forward"

listening to chevy speak, he was DONE with maurice.

No NHL coach EVER resigned.

 

[Weezeric]

Well Barry Trotz won’t be available until the summer so……

 

[SensibleGuy]

The thing is... without having a replacement for Maurice ( and the rest of the staff IMO ) and we play the rest of the season with a intern-Head Coach, all we have done is write off the rest of the season.

Lowry takes over the reigns, but he's been here a while, so how is his message or voice going to be any different? It won't be IMO. Sure, maybe we see the initial "coach gets fired team plays better" push for a few games, but after that, what really changes?

Without bringing in that new voice, I see nothing changing.

I would much prefer the org to have found their guy and fired Mo. I don't really like this situation...I like Po Mo and wish him well, but I don't like the way this has played out.

 

[Do or Die]

Lowry should have things easy.
All he has to do, is read this board....

 

[surixon]

I think it’s a reasonable assumption to say Chevy brought in Lowry last year for precisely this purpose

Yup.most organizations these days want to groom their own replacement coaches. See Tampa, Pittsburgh etc. Lowry has only been here a year and a half.

 

[Guffman]

hmmm


who's his burner account

 

[jetsforever]

Chevy just said Lowry will be coach for the rest of the year...

How would we know if Lowry is going to be good or not yet? He hasn't done this before.

 

[cbcwpg]

Chevy is on coach #2 now... The rope on the GM just got shorter.

 

[Jack7222]

The thing is... without having a replacement for Maurice ( and the rest of the staff IMO ) and we play the rest of the season with a intern-Head Coach, all we have done is write off the rest of the season.

Lowry takes over the reigns, but he's been here a while, so how is his message or voice going to be any different? It won't be IMO. Sure, maybe we see the initial "coach gets fired team plays better" push for a few games, but after that, what really changes?

Without bringing in that new voice, I see nothing changing.

We'll still get a bounce IMO, and we could do worse than aggressively integrating Gus / Heinola / Perfetti.

Also Lowry should definitely be given a chance. I think we saw some of his schemes on display vs Edmonton last playoffs and we looked good.

 

[jetsforever]

Chevy is on coach #2 now... The rope on the GM just got shorter.

Noel, Maurice, Lowry?

 

[sipowicz]

If I know how dads coach sons, Lowry will now be our 4C

His talent level matches that slot!

 

[Scheifele55]

Yup it was all just a dream, everyone wakes up and John Paddock is still Jets head coach!

It could be Bob Murdoch and he is rotating Hellebuyck with Comrie.

 

[Romang67]

Lowry was a very good junior coach that from what I remember Joe saying runs a very aggressive scheme. He also has Stanley Cup winning pedigree as an assistant coach with the Kings. I am fully willing to give him a chance.

Yeah, I think a lot of people's memories about Lowry as a coach comes from that one WJC when Canada did really poorly.

There is no one experienced head coach without a job that I'm super interested in right now. I have no issue with seeing what Lowry can do with this team as an interim.

I'll miss Paul. He is a great guy. I just don't think he was the right coach with this team anymore. It was time.