Well, let me start this way. I'll give you a little background. I came up here on a four-month

contract and followed love with all of it, ownership, management, players, the staff,

the city, the fans, the snow, the cold, and found a home in a wonderful place. And I love

this place. I love this team. And that's the driver, Paul, and how I got here today.

All right, Elliott, emergency podcast, break glass. Welcome to 32 Thoughts of Podcast

presented by the all-new GMC AT4 lineup. Want to get to games postponed? Want to get

to teams shut down. But first, some news that surprised all of us on Friday morning. We had

just released the regular Friday morning 32 Thoughts podcast when we got the email from the

Winnipeg Jets that Paul Maurice had resigned as the head coach of that squad Dave Lowry

takes over and an interim capacity. Your thoughts when you first heard the news?

First of all, you know how we joked on the podcast this morning. Listen to it now because

15 minutes later, everything's going to be different. Yeah.

We're all moly. There's all that work to edit the pod and kaboom. You know what happened?

So I first saw it on Twitter with the statement that they released on Twitter. And the first

thing I do is I look for the check mark and the check marks there. Of course. But I still

didn't believe it. I thought I would click on the link, the post and I would see like

at Winnipeg Jelerts or something like that. Like it was just one of those fake close tags

that people do to fool us all the time. Yeah. I had some people text me. Do you have any

idea this was coming? And no, like I had no idea that this was coming. You know, I thought

Maurice did an unbelievable job at his media conference. I take him at total face value.

I think he was burned out. I don't think there's any question about that. The fact when

he talked about about coaching in the bubble and how it wasn't fun. I think a lot of coaches

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