The guy behind the bench, the one with the prominent jaw and electric eyes, forgive him if he seems a little fragmented or adopts a bit of a split personality this season. That’s going to happen when multiple masters have different expectations.
Head coach Paul Maurice set the bar high in his first full season coaching the Winnipeg Jets. He turned a group of chronic underachievers into a playoff team.
Following it up it won’t be easy. This will be a complex season for the coach where he will need to manage the priorities set out for him by management against the insistence of the team’s leaders that every shift in every game be about victory.