'You don’t win the Cup. What I realized is you share it. It’s not yours': Rested and ready, Maurice is heading into his third season as Florida Panthers head coach
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Paul Maurice spent his summer on a Canadian lake. Its location would be best described as in the middle of nowhere. He typically would have morning coffee with his wife, either on the dock or inside the screened-in porch depending on how bad the black flies were that day. Sometimes it lasted 30 minutes. Sometimes it lasted for hours.Put simply, the coach of the Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers — who spent 30 years chasing hockey’s biggest prize — needed a break.
“The power of that thing, the power of the Cup, is just silly,” Maurice said. “It’s indescribable. The best part of a day like that is watching all the people around you be happy at the same time.”Maurice is fourth all time in regular-season wins among NHL coaches. The 15th game of Florida's season — Nov. 9 at home against Philadelphia — will be the 2,000th of his career, including playoffs, a milestone that only Scotty Bowman has reached.
He's been back in South Florida for a couple of weeks. The celebrations for some in the organization are still happening — the Cup was at the arena where the Miami Heat play on Sunday, some players and employees there getting to bask in the title glow — but Maurice is trying hard to keep the focus on camp and the new season.
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