That does a lot for our team.”Ī spicy soundbite for sure. I think it’s been awesome for me, it’s been awesome for a lot of us, we’re being pushed and we’re being challenged to reach our full potential. (Bowness) has been on us each and every day, whether it’s a good game or a bad game, he’s always looking to help us. You see the rejuvenated faces in this room. We’re a different team this year than we were last year. “I’m not going to lie, that was a good win in my books,” Scheifele began, before things really took a strange detour off the High Road. Jets centre Mark Scheifele and then-head coach Paul Maurice have a discussion on the bench during a game in 2017. Instead, he repeatedly went out of his way to praise Maurice’s replacement, Rick Bowness, and clearly took great pleasure that his two-goal performance played a big part in a 5-2 victory that seemed downright personal. Given multiple opportunities to say something - anything! - positive about his former mentor for the role he had in shaping the first decade of his career, Scheifele refused to take a swing at the softballs lobbed his way. High praise, indeed, rooted in a long-standing relationship between a beloved bench boss and the organization’s first-ever draft pick.įast forward to Tuesday with Maurice - in town for the first time in nearly a year - now at the helm of the Florida Panthers. It was back in February 2019 when then-Winnipeg Jets coach Paul Maurice described his star centre, Mark Scheifele, as “a-bronze-statue-in front-of-the-building kind of guy.” This article was published (358 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. Free Press 101: How we practise journalism.
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