Panthers lock down coach Maurice with extension

by Anthony S. Hansen
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SUNRISE, Fla. — The Florida Panthers have given out one other large extension — this one, to their Stanley Cup-winning coach.

Paul Maurice and the Panthers have agreed on an prolonged contract, the group introduced Tuesday. Maurice was within the last yr of a three-year deal, and it was a certainty that the Panthers deliberate on maintaining him round after he took the group to the Stanley Cup Remaining in every of his first two seasons.

Maurice entered Tuesday with 98 regular-season wins with Florida, already the third most in membership historical past behind Jacques Martin (110) and Peter DeBoer (103). And his postseason success with the Panthers is past evaluate; he has received 29 playoff video games with Florida — highlighted by the group profitable its first Stanley Cup final season — whereas each different coach in membership historical past has 25 playoff wins mixed.

It is the most recent large deal that the group has gotten performed, and extra proof that Florida’s championship core is perhaps collectively for years to return.

The Panthers introduced already this season that they’ve signed ahead Carter Verhaeghe to an eight-year extension, which means they’ve lots of their key gamers — additionally together with Aleksander Barkov, Matthew Tkachuk, Sam Reinhart, Anton Lundell and Gustav Forsling — below contract by means of no less than 2030. And the group is speaking to ahead Sam Bennett about an extension as effectively.

Maurice is second in NHL historical past in video games coached (1,855 getting into Tuesday) behind Scotty Bowman (2,141), and fourth all time in wins (873) behind Bowman (1,244), Joel Quenneville (969) and Barry Trotz (914).

Final season’s title by the Panthers was Maurice’s first Stanley Cup championship.

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