Road to a Repeat! The Florida Panthers are back on the ice tonight for Game 2 against the Maple Leafs! We listen to HC Paul Maurice who is very much over this reporter's question surrounding the Sam Bennett hit on Anthony Stolarz.
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00:25Carter Brady.
00:30Thank you, Bob.
00:36You just enjoy that line.
00:39Carter.
00:40Verhege.
00:43It's the stress on his teeth at the end.
00:47Verhege.
00:49All right.
00:50How many times do you think you have to go over that name with him?
00:53I don't know.
00:54I don't know.
00:55Do you just want to have you guys ever known a fan base to be so pissed off to be up one
01:02Oh, in a series like do it did like does it even feel to you like the Leafs have won and
01:08are up one Oh, in this year.
01:09I don't feel like they've enjoyed it at all.
01:11They've been so obsessed and Paul Maurice talked about this yesterday because somebody asked
01:17him about motivation and he's like motivation to one.
01:20Like, what do you mean motivated?
01:21We should.
01:22It's like we should be motivated.
01:24We're down one Oh in the series and people should Paul.
01:27You are.
01:28You worried about a motivation in this series.
01:31And he's like, look at the guy rightfully so like he's an idiot.
01:34And I feel respectfully, Canada, you all are, are, are so wrapped up in this.
01:40I don't even think that they've taken a moment to enjoy the fact that they got off to, and
01:44by the way, a tortured fan base that does not have a lot of playoff success recently.
01:49No, um, should be more grateful for winning a game.
01:52Right.
01:52They should be like, no, they are.
01:54They want, they, they, they so badly want Sam Bennett to feel their wrath.
02:00They haven't even enjoyed this win at all, which is pretty crazy.
02:04But here's a little of Paul Maurice yesterday.
02:07Oh, so just a little bit of structure to our team.
02:18Paul, with the developments of what happened last night during the game, um, do you anticipate
02:24that the Maple Leafs will kind of try to use that as motivation if they, you know, if they
02:30lose?
02:30So we're not talking about the win?
02:33We're, I'm talking about Anthony Solares.
02:36And, and, okay, hit me with the question again one more time.
02:39Do you think that, that him being injured may be, that may be used as a weapon for motivation?
02:48Not a weapon, but yeah.
02:49I didn't think they appeared under motivated in the game, but we didn't say how motivated
02:56we want to go here tonight.
02:58We would think that both teams will be equally motivated.
03:01I got to tell you, he's had enough of that.
03:09I got to tell you.
03:10He's got a question for Paul.
03:16Trying too hard, right?
03:18Trying to ask that question without fully.
03:23I used to get mad at reporters for this.
03:27You've had far more time to come up with a question than I've had to come up with an
03:33answer.
03:34Why the hell is your question so jacked up?
03:38Right?
03:39With all that time.
03:40Because that guy, he really thought he was asking Paul Maurice a doozy.
03:45And if he went back and thought about it, he goes, yeah, I just asked the team that lost
03:53if the other team has motivation after game one.
03:57Right?
03:58Yeah.
03:58Now, if you put it, just let's make it plain this day.
04:02As a reporter, you went into the losing team and asked him if he thought the winning team
04:11had motivation for game two.
04:15Now, I don't care how long you've been in the profession.
04:19If you sit back and think about that question, you got to say, woof.
04:25Yeah.
04:26But you had a long time to develop your questions.
04:32Here's a little bit more of a Panthers head coach, Paul Maurice, having to be peppered
04:37with the Sam Bennett question just today.
04:39What does that line look like to you for him?
04:42You know, he's playing on the edge.
04:45He plays hard.
04:51Like, there was a hit two and a half years ago that you guys have shown 4,000 times.
04:56There was a parking ticket seven years ago that I think actually made the video.
05:00Like, he's got the puck.
05:02He's on a power play.
05:03Goes to the net.
05:04But not even, not through the, he's got the puck.
05:06He's going to the net.
05:07I understand, like, call the fire department, put your hair out.
05:11Let's move on, please.
05:12Like, the edge.
05:14The place already has the puck a lot.
05:15If he doesn't have the puck, you've got a system that says you've got to hit the guy
05:17with the puck.
05:19There's your line.
05:20No, I knew you weren't letting this go.
05:25Hey, like, like, like, like, you know, you know, you know, you know what's amazing about
05:32that?
05:32But I've heard two questions, and none of them are the basic questions that need to
05:44be asked.
05:45What do you feel your team needs to do better?
05:48Are you going to make any adjustments to the lines?
05:50I don't know a damn thing about hockey.
05:52That's the first two questions I would want to know.
05:55Steve, we bring you this tonight on TSN.
05:57It's a horrifying footage of a young Sam Bennett actually stealing a lollipop from a baby.
06:06Granted, he was a baby as well.
06:09Right.
06:10He was seven months.
06:13You saw it from an early age.
06:15He was raised like this.
06:16He was raised an absolute Canadian thug.
06:19We knew where this was going.
06:21You guys, we saw it at an early age.
06:24Can I just think, think about this.
06:33In all of sports, we don't ever go back like we convicting the guy in court back to his
06:42childhood, right?
06:44Did everybody ever think that when Sam Bennett got to the Panthers, they told him, we need
06:55you to be physical.
06:56We need you to play this way.
06:58We need you because this is who we want to be.
07:02Right?
07:03Because that also happens.
07:04I know some of the nice guys in sports when they play the game.
07:11Not so much.
07:14I just thought this was the birthplace of hockey.
07:16Like, I thought you guys love this stuff.
07:18Like, isn't this, this is your national pastime and you're acting like it's the first time
07:22you've everybody ever seen somebody get hit hard before something crazy happened on a,
07:27on a, on a, on a rink.
07:29Like, this is insane to me.
07:30Like, you know, how playoff, maybe we're just used to, cause we saw what failed playoff
07:35hockey.
07:35First of all, we saw what no playoffs looks like.
07:37Then we saw what incredible regular season to fail playoff hockey looks like.
07:42Then you saw.
07:43Yeah.
07:44And I'm just like, you guys won.
07:48Why are you acting like you're down?
07:50Oh, one of this.
07:50I get you.
07:51Your goalie's hurt.
07:52It's unfortunate what happened to him.
07:54Hey, nobody wants to see that happen to stole ours.
07:57That's what the Panthers have been clear with.
07:58He took a hundred mile an hour slap shot right off the dome, by the way, which, you know,
08:04Reinhardt skated completely.
08:07Well, maybe Reinhardt, you know what?
08:09Maybe Reinhardt should go out there.
08:10Hey, Rhino, keep your slap shots under 70 miles an hour, dude.
08:13Too hard.
08:14Too hard.
08:15Let wall have whatever he's got to go out.
08:16You know, let's have a, a tepid it's because it's literally, this is what it is.
08:21This is, it's, it's, it's peewee hockey.
08:23That's what we have going out there.
08:24This is mighty ducks.
08:25Are you kidding me?
08:27Like, what are we talking about?
08:29You're supposed to be Toronto.
08:31You're supposed to be.
08:31Here's the deal.
08:32Is that, is that the national media or is that local?
08:38I mean, it's, I don't know.
08:40I don't know.
08:41Cause I think they're still, or are they, they're still in Toronto.
08:44Yeah.
08:45They're still in Toronto.
08:45It could very well be the Toronto.
08:47They're getting hit over the head with it.
08:50It's just amazing to me that the team that's up one, people are being, people are looking
09:02at them for motivation and not the team down or one.
09:06Like if, if during that presser, I didn't hear any changes to the line or what you feel
09:14like you need to do to start the game a little differently.
09:17Right.
09:18All of which questions.
09:19Look, in fairness, I haven't heard.
09:22Yeah.
09:23I played the questions I wanted responses to, but like, right.
09:26Like, even still like, Oh, how are they going to use this as a weapon?
09:32We're down on one.
09:33What do you, I don't care.
09:35We need to win this game.
09:36You know, what's even more amazing is you could kind of, if you play it again, you can
09:44kind of hear mid question, the guy going to himself, right.
09:52I've been there.
09:53You can start, it's like, it's like, it's like Toby going up that wall and you realize
10:02it after two steps, you ain't going to make it to the top to save Sophie.
10:07For sure.
10:08I've been there.
10:09Who do you think on the Panthers though, is least likely to pay parking tickets?
10:13Cause it's definitely Kachuk, right?
10:14Like Kachuk definitely crumples it up to the meter maid and is like, not today, Rocco.
10:19Yeah.
10:20100%.
10:21Bob pays, Bob pays too much.
10:24Yeah.
10:24He pays big on his ticket.
10:26Yeah.
10:26Him and Barkoff are sitting here and be like, I'm sorry about that.
10:29He's just in a mood today.
10:30Yeah.
10:30How about some free tickets?
10:33Right.
10:33Like, yeah.
10:35Would you like to hold my championship ring for 10 minutes?
10:38Right.
10:38I'm sorry.
10:39I apologize.
10:40Yeah.
10:43Bob's like, I should have focused.
10:45You think Kachuk just parks straight on the curb when it comes to the elbow room?
10:55Like he doesn't, he's not.
10:56First of all, you know, he's got one of those big duallys.
10:59Oh yeah.
11:00Right.
11:00He's got a dually and, and he just parks on the curb.
11:05I think he's got one.
11:06Yeah.
11:06One of those monster golf carts.
11:08He's just got one wheel up on the curb.
11:09He's like, throws the keys to the kid.
11:13And the guy goes, Hey, I'm not valet.
11:15They don't have valet.
11:17And he just throws his keys.
11:18You are today.