The Paul Maurice Pitchfork Thread (MOD Warning Post #1)

[Mogo]

Fun times

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

It's incredible how much better Paul Maurice looks as a coach without the Staal brothers anchoring the team.

 

[Howboutthempanthers]

Reading through a bit of this thread was....... an experience.

 

[Laus723]

He has to find that balance with the team. I like what they’re doing defensively 5 on 5 to be honest. I’m not clenching my asshole as much as last year. That being said they are pretty painful to watch offensively.

Now you can breathe through your nose.

 

[TotalHomer]

Reading through a bit of this thread was....... an experience.

hey if you can't overreact on HFboards then the terrorists have already won...

 

[ScottyMascotty]

I kinda miss good old Jakeybonz doomerism

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

Well since this got bumped,

Paul Maurice, with his 104th win, just passed Pete DeBoer to become the second winningest head coach in Panthers history. I didn't even know who the winningest was, and apparently it was Jacques Martin with 110.

The answer to at least one trivia question is going to become much, much, much, much easier to answer in about ten to twelve games.

 

[Gentle Man]

The funniest trivia is still Maurice being the first coach to get a contract extension lmao

 

[RogerRogerr]

The funniest trivia is still Maurice being the first coach to get a contract extension lmao

It tells you everything you need to know about our team's history.

 

[Mogo]

Well since this got bumped,

Paul Maurice, with his 104th win, just passed Pete DeBoer to become the second winningest head coach in Panthers history. I didn't even know who the winningest was, and apparently it was Jacques Martin with 110.

The answer to at least one trivia question is going to become much, much, much, much easier to answer in about ten to twelve games.

Thats very sad tho when you think about our franchise

A coach with 2 full seasons and change is gonna become are all time winning coach. Just tells you how BAD it had been

 

[StrangeVision]

Thats very sad tho when you think about our franchise

A coach with 2 full seasons and change is gonna become are all time winning coach. Just tells you how BAD it had been

Just highlights how good it is now.

 

[ScottyMascotty]

Jet fan coming in peace.
I’ve always had a soft spot for the Panthers and I was genuinely surprised when they hired Paul Maurice.
It’s still early in the season and things can turn around. Before you panic, here are the things to look for (from experience) that would be red flags that happened here in Winnipeg.
1) constant under-performing for the amount of talent on the team.
2) A very safe but ineffective penalty kill. No aggression at all.
3) A powerplay that doesn’t have any movement to it. Very predictable and easy to defend against.
4) Very little aggressive forechecking at 5 on 5 and very little D pinching. D and forwards don’t play as a 5 man unit.
5) No layers on the attack. Always three across the line.
6) Former high character players seemingly losing interest and putting in little effort.
7) playing the wrong style of hockey for the type of talent on the team.
If you’re seeing most or all of these, then it’s probably time to worry a bit that history is repeating.

Now that's an all-time classic.

Only 3) is sometimes true. Still not that bad, just as not as consistently good as 5-on-5 hockey with that talent of 4 best forwards

 

[ScottyMascotty]

So true, it can't be worse

 

[Jean Luc Discard]

Why are we still waiting for Zito to make the right decision to fire this guy. Can't win with bums like this dude coaching a team that's ready to win now...

 

[austropanther]

So true, it can't be worse

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Wow, where did you dig that up? I deserve to eat sh*t on this so much (this sounds so wrong).

I remember how mad I was at the guy in general in the beginning, though don't know why I was this mad after this NYR loss in paricular. But if I also remember right I was one of the earliest to change my mind about PoMo. There's a thin line between love and hate...

 

[Ekblast]

Wow, where did you dig that up? I deserve to eat sh*t on this so much (this sounds so wrong).

I remember how mad I was at the guy in general in the beginning, though don't know why I was this mad after this NYR loss in paricular. But if I also remember right I was one of the earliest to change my mind about PoMo. There's a thin line between love and hate...

I don't fault you. When PoMo first got here things weren't good. We just came off a spectacular regular season. Won a ton of games and then canned the coach. We were pissed. Same with Bob. Bob did suck the first two years here until they put a team (defense and a system) in front of him.

We called a spade a spade, It was what it was. I don't regret anything negative I said bout Bob or PoMo because that's how it was at that particular moment in time.

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

It was a really rough beginning. I think I realized I had been completely wrong after the (2023) Boston series. Paul Maurice outcoached Jim Montgomery quite badly in that one.

 

[KW]

I don't fault you. When PoMo first got here things weren't good. We just came off a spectacular regular season. Won a ton of games and then canned the coach. We were pissed. Same with Bob. Bob did suck the first two years here until they put a team (defense and a system) in front of him.

We called a spade a spade, It was what it was. I don't regret anything negative I said bout Bob or PoMo because that's how it was at that particular moment in time.

I agreed with moving on from Bruno because he was badly outcoached by Cooper in the playoffs. So badly and with zero adjustments by Bruno that it didn’t look like a small hiccup.

I wasn’t instantly behind Paul that’s for sure but what I didn’t understand at the time was that in order to win the Cup, the team must all be on the same page, no egos and no personal stats chase. That’s what Maurice was able to instill in the team and it sure helped to have Barkov as the ultimate team player captain. I now understand much better how hard that is to bring out on the team. It took Paul the whole season but now the Panthers are the envy of the league. Other team fans don’t get it though, they keep bringing out player names like if Bennett went to Vancouver they’d instantly become a contender. Well maybe but maybe not.

I joke about Toronto but maybe Berube really can get something similar to Maurice done there. Will Nylander and Matthews and Marner buy in? That’s the key question. If they do, it could propel them … past the first round again!

 

[violaswallet]

I agreed with moving on from Bruno because he was badly outcoached by Cooper in the playoffs. So badly and with zero adjustments by Bruno that it didn’t look like a small hiccup.

I wasn’t instantly behind Paul that’s for sure but what I didn’t understand at the time was that in order to win the Cup, the team must all be on the same page, no egos and no personal stats chase. That’s what Maurice was able to instill in the team and it sure helped to have Barkov as the ultimate team player captain. I now understand much better how hard that is to bring out on the team. It took Paul the whole season but now the Panthers are the envy of the league. Other team fans don’t get it though, they keep bringing out player names like if Bennett went to Vancouver they’d instantly become a contender. Well maybe but maybe not.

I joke about Toronto but maybe Berube really can get something similar to Maurice done there. Will Nylander and Matthews and Marner buy in? That’s the key question. If they do, it could propel them … past the first round again!

One thing I think about: our core forwards are the sons of players and coaches: Barky (dad played and coaches), Lundy (dad played and coaches), Reino (dad played) and Tkachuk (dad plays and armchair coaches). That makes buying into new systems easier.

I think a lot about it generally because it makes me wonder how important and ethical lineage is

 

[ScottyMascotty]

 

[KW]

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I’m definitely changing my username now

 

[Jean Luc Discard]

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Not sure what's the point of posting screenshots (spam) of past posts when ppl can look up themselves what said at the time when the Panthers were down in the standings while Zito's recent trade acquisitions included the junk heap finds like Chiarot and Hagg. About a week from that post Mo called his infamous timeout in a game against the Laughs to just berate his players.

 

[ScottyMascotty]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1852417558789664942

https://x.com/i/web/status/1852419237765063010

 

[iam76]

hated the move at the time.. i wanted cassidy who went to vegas.. then we struggled.. it was rough. So glad to be wrong. just took some time.