{"id":122667,"date":"2021-12-17T12:03:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=122667"},"modified":"2021-12-17T12:03:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:03:25","slug":"paul-maurice-resigns-head-coach-winnipeg-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/12\/17\/paul-maurice-resigns-head-coach-winnipeg-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Maurice Resigns As Head Coach of the Winnipeg Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In shocking news Friday morning, Paul Maurice resigns as the head coach of the Winnipeg Jets. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lowryda01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dave Lowry<\/a> will assume the head coaching position on an interim basis.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nb42gBlJJS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Nb42gBlJJS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Winnipeg Jets PR (@WpgJetsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WpgJetsPR\/status\/1471865481711792131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Paul Maurice Resigns, Dave Lowry Assumes Coaching Duties<\/h2>\n<p>Paul Maurice was in his ninth season of coaching the Winnipeg Jets. His time with the Jets has been successful, with an overall record of 315-223-62. Under Maurice, the Jets have made the playoffs for four consecutive seasons, but are currently in a fight to stay in the wild card mix this year. Truly one of the more <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/08\/05\/jets-paul-maurice-most-underrated-coach-nhl\/\" target=\"_self\">underrated head coaches<\/a> in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>The highlight of Maurice&#8217;s reign as Jets&#8217; coach came in 2017-18. That season, the team finished with the second-highest point total in the league with 114 points and made it all the way to the Western Conference Final, ultimately losing to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/vegas-golden-knights\/\" target=\"_self\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Maurice&#8217;s Own Decision to Resign<\/h3>\n<p>This news comes as a complete shock. There were no signs of a hot coaching seat in Winnipeg from management&#8217;s perspective, and prior to today, no public indications from Maurice to foreshadow this resignation. Even though the Jets find themselves currently out of a playoff spot, their 13-10-5 record isn&#8217;t a mark that suggested an imminent coaching change.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference on Friday morning, Maurice confirmed that the decision to resign was completely his. Maurice stated that in his opinion, the team needs a new voice at this point and that he has given all that he can to the Jets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Emotional Paul Maurice: this is a good team, I&#8217;m a good coach&#8230;but sometimes you can only push so far. Sometimes a team needs a new voice. They haven&#8217;t quit on me, but need a different voice. It&#8217;s the right time for it, and I know that.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/1471873387756675080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is a sign of a good head coach knowing when it is time to walk away. Maurice added that he just did not have the same fire coming to the rink anymore.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means Going Forward<\/h3>\n<p>Given how sudden this news is, and the fact that this wasn&#8217;t leaked or hinted to the media in the previous days, it&#8217;s likely that this caught the whole organization by surprise. It&#8217;s hard to predict how this news will affect the team and the franchise moving forward. In Vancouver, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/canucks\/\" target=\"_self\">Canucks<\/a> have certainly benefited from an in-season coaching change, but that&#8217;s a different scenario where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/coaches\/boudrbr01c.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bruce Boudreau<\/a> was brought in as part of a complete leadership overhaul.<\/p>\n<p>General manager Kevin Cheveldayoff stated that Dave Lowry will remain in the interim head coach through the remainder of this season.<\/p>\n<p>As for Maurice, he didn&#8217;t indicate any personal or medical reasons for his resignation. That leaves the door open for a potential head coaching return in the future. There would certainly be interest in Maurice, who has 1684 games under his belt and an all-time record of 775-680-99-130. 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Dave Lowry will assume the head coaching position on an interim basis. pic.twitter.com\/Nb42gBlJJS \u2014 Winnipeg Jets PR (@WpgJetsPR) December 17, 2021 Paul Maurice Resigns, Dave Lowry Assumes Coaching Duties Paul Maurice was in his ninth season of coaching the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3938,"featured_media":122674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,4547,34,4548],"tags":[1066,5998],"class_list":["post-122667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jets","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-paul-maurice","tag-winnipeg-jets-news"],"modified_by":"Jim Biringer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3938"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}