Florida Panthers coach Paul Maurice spoke the day after his team beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-1 in Game 2 of the 2024 Stanley Cup Final on Tuesday, June 11, 2024, from Fort Lauderdale.
The Panthers have a 2-0 lead in the series with Game 3 on Thursday night at 8 p.m. (ABC) in Edmonton.
Florida lost captain Aleksander Sasha Barkov after he took a flying elbow to the head from Edmonton star Leon Draisaitl.
Panthers In Control, Lose Barkov to Head Shot: https://floridahockeynow.com/florida-panthers-4-edmonton-oilers-1-game-2-stanley-cup-final-barkov/
Carter Verhaeghe Playoff Menace for Panthers: https://floridahockeynow.com/carter-verhaeghe-does-it-again-for-florida-panthers-in-the-playoffs/
Gretzky Has Praise for Barkov: https://floridahockeynow.com/the-great-sasha-wayne-gretzky-has-high-praise-for-barkov/
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On Monday night, the Panthers trailed 1-0 before Niko Mikkola tied the score in the second.
Evan Rodrigues scored twice in the third — including on the power-play resulting from the Barkov hit — with Aaron Ekblad adding an empty net.
Sergei Bobrovsky had 18 saves; Anton Lundell had two primary assists.
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38 Comments
The best part is how shocked Maurice is that the first question isn’t about Barkov
george needs to be fired – fake news – GO CATS GO
I wish they would improve the sound/acoustics for these interviews
Good sign Maurice smiled
Best part is Maurice's is in a much better mood than he was last night. I think Barkov is gonna be OK for game three. Draisaitl not so much, don't what would be better a suspension or 2-3 more games of Panthers players pounding the crap out of him at every opportunity.
Hockey players are obviously the toughest athletes in the world. Who is second?
Barkov please be okay
Be okay Barkov🇫🇮
Maurice in a much better mood today. A big sigh of relief.
Better mood than direct After the Game, for sure Barky will play 👍👍
He is the most honest, interesting and entertaining coach to listen to.
Terrific coach and hopefully we can win the cup for guys like him
The team being coached to embellish and play dead is going to win the stanley cup.
The crying reporter has been gold this post season
That's good news. Coach always makes me feel better. #GOCATSGO
Is it time to release the Kraken. Tkachuk, Bennett and Cousins line.
Does anyone else have trouble hearing the questions and even PM ..
Anyway to up the audio quality?
a great coach knows his players …Maurice is a good one !
Leafs fan here. I can't wait to hear interviews with the Florida coaches, both of them; Cooper and Maurice. They're class acts!
Audio! Audio! Audio!
Sounds like the beginning of a song.
Rookies!!
Bring up the Hanson brothers.
The NHL sucks if Leon is not suspended. I remember the Rome hit years ago…Rome's hit seemed way more legal
Oilers fan from Germany here. Maurice seems to be a great guy and he is handling the Barkov/Draisaitl situation very mature. Would love to see more of that classy behavior in the comment sections as well. People can argue about suspensions and what not but hoping that someone cheap shots Draisaitl or McDavid is wild. I would love to see less of that stuff and I’m not happy with Draisaitls hit either. But it’s time to move on, especially now that Barkov luckily seems to be okay. Florida has everything to win the cup. I hope that Edmonton can win on home ice to make it a close series. Let’s celebrate hockey!
Barky you are too tough and committed not to be ready for next game. You are the main reason we want Florida to win this cup
We CANNOT HEAR THE QUESTIONS. CAN THE NHL AFFORD MICROPHONES?
Man I love this team! ❤
Drasitl🎯
I agree with Paul that you shouldn't have to suspend the player if the injury is as Paul speaks of.
Diving and fake injury. These are what dirty team do when they know they can't compete with skills.
Barkov injury is a sham.
"Oh! you don't want to play a pissed off FL team. Believe us" BOS/NYR to Edmonton
Bring back schultz, and the crew to take care of defending actions on barkov…that was elbow to head and should be suspended 2 games. This is way out of hand. Stick to groin etc. In 70s, shultz or 80s dave brown would punch your head in if u did that like drasti. Maybe extreme contact needs to go away.
As a Canadian….I just wanna say thank you Florida…nobody wants to see the diving/crying oilers win anything
Had to put my phone like I was in a call to hear this Shit , wtf yall recording the voice with ? A SECRET SERVICE MIC?
This coach deserves to have his name on the Cup, and this year, it's gonna happen. Finally.
Steve Kozari is allowed to ref after clearly favoring the Panthers? Awesome!
Maurice can put any hockey fan in a good mood also good on him for saying sorry to the media for being unset last night
Another great interview.