Florida Panthers Coach Paul Maurice and Carolina Hurricanes Coach Rod Brind’Amour appeared to have words with each other after the Panthers ended the Hurricanes’ season with a 5-3 victory in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals, and neither coaching staff took part in the handshake line that traditionally caps the final game of a Stanley Cup playoff series.
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Why Panthers coach Paul Maurice skipped the handshake line with the Carolina Hurricanes
Author of the article:Washington Post
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Matt Bonesteel, The Washington Post
Published May 29, 2025 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read
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Jon Cooper and Paul Maurice shake hands.
Tampa Bay Lightning head coach Jon Cooper and Florida Panthers head coach Paul Maurice shake hands after Game 5 of the First Round of the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs at Amalie Arena on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. Photo by Mike Carlson /Getty Images
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Florida Panthers Coach Paul Maurice and Carolina Hurricanes Coach Rod Brind’Amour appeared to have words with each other after the Panthers ended the Hurricanes’ season with a 5-3 victory in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals, and neither coaching staff took part in the handshake line that traditionally caps the final game of a Stanley Cup playoff series.
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But after the game, Maurice said there wasn’t any ill-will after a typically hard-hitting playoff series.
Instead, he seems to be on a crusade to get coaches out of the centre-ice handshake line that has been a staple of the NHL postseason for decades.
That’s what his conversation with Brind’Amour was about, he said.
“I don’t believe that the coaches should shake players’ hands at the end,” Maurice said. “There’s this long list of people in suits and track suits. We had like 400 people on the ice. They’re all really important to our group. But not one of them was in the game.”There’s something for me visually, with the camera on just the men who played, blocked shots, fought for each other, it’s end of one’s season, it’s excitement for the other,” Maurice said. “The last thing that a player on the Carolina Hurricanes deserves is 50 more guys in suits, they have no idea who they are and that’s not a negative. There’s something really kind of beautiful about just the camera on those men who played shaking hands. And we should respect that.”
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