Paul Maurice Is Sick Of Toronto Media Going After Sam Bennett As Florida Panthers Get Ready For GM2

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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.

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