Paul Maurice on Panthers/Lightning Getting 322 Minutes of Penalties, 16 Ejections in Preseason

Yeah. Well, well, coach, what kind of message do you think Tampa was trying to send in this game? Yeah, I have no idea. Um, don’t worry about it. You know, train camp’s solar. U some good games. A guy like Sergey was real good. Rody got three. That’s awesome. Bolinska’s played forward in defense. We got Nobody’s complaining about ice time by the end of it. So, it’s over. Were you worried at some point that you might run out of players or were you like kind of rooting for that? No. No. because they the game would have kept playing. You always get a concern when you get down to under, you know, you get to five or six forwards. You uh you guys get that that’s dangerous, but uh we got through it. Um Evan Rodriguez just said, “I don’t know what that was, but it wasn’t hockey.” Um what was it? Yeah, I the legal look at it. I’ll I’ll handle that the same way you handle the playoffs. They’ll they’ll look at it. I’ll leave it at that. Mhm. Um, have you ever I’m sure you have, but a game like that um 250 minutes, whatever. Yeah. 12 13 ejections. Yeah. 17 power plays. Yeah, that would be the first. 17 power plays. Absolutely the first. The rest of it, I can’t say for sure. That hasn’t happened before. Do these things kind of happen in a in it just because it was a preseason game? I mean, well, I don’t think you see it very often. Yeah. What What can you say of the togetherness of this group? like this. You know what? There’s because of the lineups, there’s some new guys on the bench and gets pretty funny after a while.

Florida Panthers coach Paul Maurice meets the media after his team beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 7-0 in their preseason finale on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025, in Sunrise.

The game was marred by 322 penalty minutes and 16 ejections; Aaron Ekblad was injured on his second shift of the night.

Evan Rodrigues scored three goals in the win.

Florida opens the season Tuesday against the Blackhawks where they will raise their 2025 Stanley Cup banner.

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In Game 6, the Panthers led 2-0 in the first off goals from Sam Reinhart and Matthew Tkachuk.

Reinhart made it 3-0 with his second of the game before he got his hat trick — and then a fourth goal.

Sam Bennett won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.

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  8. Tampa reached a breaking point. They clearly came in to send a message that they weren’t taking it anymore. They started all the scrums in this one. The fact that Panthers had none of their stars in lineup shows they knew it was coming.

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