Paul Maurice explains why Panthers, Hurricanes coaches skipped handshake line after Eastern Conference Final

No coach participated in the traditional line of hits after the Florida panthers Series-Clinching Game 5 of the East Conference Final On the hurricanes of Carolina. A brief exchange of ice between Paul Maurice de Florida and Rod’lind’amour de Carolina attracted attention, but Maurice explained that it was intentional, not a snatch.

“It’s a personal belief and I really appreciate what he did, because there is a little risk,” said Maurice Postgame. “I don’t think coaches had to shake hands with the players at the end. There’s this long list of people in clothes and clothes dresses. We had 400 people on the ice. They are all really important to our group. But none of them were in the game.”

The panthers passed a deficit 2-0 after the first period of the game 5 to defeat the hurricanes, 5-3, and advance to their third consecutive end of the Stanley Cup. When the players began to align the hand, Maurice and Brind’amour gathered in the ice near the banks for a short but lively conversation where the two agreed to let the players have the moment.

“There is something to me visually, with the camera only of the men who played, they blocked traits, who fought for each other, is the end of the season, it is excited by the other,” said Maurice. “The last one deserved by a carolina hurricane player is 50 more boys in costumes. They have no idea who they are, and this is not negative. There is something really beautiful about the camera of the men who played in their hand. And we should respect it.”

Maurice added that he had a similar conversation with Toronto coach Craig Berube, after the second round in early May, emphasizing that both Berube and Brind’amour, having been the players themselves, understood the reasoning of his approach.

“I don’t know where he changed,” Maurice said. “When I first entered the league, you would never want to give the players’ hands. Some coaches wanted to put -my camera is the only thing I can find out, right here.