Panthers Coach Paul Maurice's Strategy Shift in Playoff Pressure

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00:00Paul Maurice has been what, Sky, the last two years during these runs?

00:03Always been the guy to lean on for a great quote,

00:06shift the attention away from the team.

00:09Here he is, actually going to try to sell you

00:13that he likes being in this position better than when they were up 3-0.

00:18He's actually going to try to sell you that right now,

00:21with them up 3-2 with two games left to go.

00:24Here's Paul Maurice.

00:25You're still leading the series, like I said last night,

00:283-2 has got to look a whole lot different than 3-0 did, obviously.

00:32Yeah, you're going to think I'm lying to you.

00:34I'm more comfortable, I understand the feeling of 3-2,

00:37because most series are like that.

00:39That's more, 3-0 is more of an aberration, isn't it?

00:44Pressure.

00:47I think if you spend enough time,

00:49I think we think about these things possibly differently, right?

00:54And I'm not sure that I would agree with the assessment

00:56that the pressure has shifted so heavily to us.

01:00And I'm not going to try to work you to get it out in the meeting

01:04so I can possibly shift it over here.

01:10We've had something possibly to protect at 3-0, right?

01:14The opportunity, we've earned this, now we've got to protect it.

01:17And they would have had nothing to protect in Game 4, nothing.

01:21So there's a little bit of a leveling out of what you feel like you have to protect.

01:27I just really feel like that was an absolute load of shack.

01:30I have no idea what he was trying to do there at all, zero.

01:34I'm not even trying to figure it out.

01:36All I know is they're in big trouble.

01:40Like, they are getting their ass beat now.

01:44And the thing that stands out to me

01:47is all the cheap goals that Bobrovsky's been giving up.

01:50I mean, the guy's turned into the Suez Canal.

01:54I mean, honestly, his legs are opened up.

01:56Did you see the McDavid goal the other night?

01:59I mean, your daughter would have made that save.

02:02It was a terrible goal.

02:04He looks tired to me.

02:06Now remember, last year, he ran out of gas and got worked.

02:13And he has been brilliant all the way until 3-0.

02:19And since 3-0, he has been lit the F up.

02:25And you can say whatever you want.

02:28Marenzi gave you the numbers.

02:30The guy, he's terrible right now.

02:34He's not stopping anything.

02:36What did he say, his save percentage was 640-something?

02:39Like, that is awful.

02:41That is as bad as I've ever seen in my life in a Stanley Cup final.

02:46He has gone from winning the consmite to having no chance at all to get it.

02:50At 9-1, he was heavy favorite for the consmite when it was 3-0.

02:55Mike, they're in trouble.

02:57Like, I'm not going to be surprised at all if they lose in Forellibert

03:03and then go home and lose in Game 7.

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