Paul Maurice, Panthers Pregame: Marchand Back, Dallas Stars at Florida; Nov. 1, 2025
Well, coach, you have often said adversity forces you to grow. Um, what do you want to see today from your team in order to take another step forward in the right direction against Dallas? We’re looking for more speed in our offensive game. The uh the idea would be not set plays um that we’re waiting to happen, but basic concepts that we can we can speed our game up. Our defensive game is built off that. We have one or two reads and then we play off those reads as fast as we can. I think we’re trying to attach an offensive game that’s built from the same kind of mental foundation. We do one or two things very consistently and then we can be fast off those things. Brad Brad Marian very appreciative that you allowed him to go join his family. That sounds like based on dealing with you guys the past couple years a decision to to allow him to to go home. Yeah, I I think I know that that would be in our environment. We would fully appreciate the things that are most important and hockey is very very important, but there’s there’s some things that just easily outweigh it and that need to be dealt with. And anything that you know what he was going through is real. And um we have a very committed group. They work really hard, but there are things that just trump the game of hockey and and missing a player for a game. And you always risk when you miss players. And that’s the the fear of of at times um what am I trying to say? Somebody’s got a family issue at home, they need to be with their family, not here, and we need to be able to cover that off. So, there really wasn’t a decision for us. We felt for him with he had he had a tough week. That’s a tough week. And and the entire family did. So he needed to be there. Good to have him back though. Great to have him back, you know, and and there’s a relief, too. You come back and just play a game of hockey and then the perspective for those players is always right on. He brings a little joy to that game. It’s not tedious anymore. It’s it’s a game. They can have some fun. And lineup changes tonight. Sango in. Yeah, we’ll we’ll put Donovan in. We need to get a look at him so we understand his game with Dimmitri’s injuries not short term. So he is going to play games for us the earlier that we can get him in and get an understanding of potential pairings for him. Uh how much he has processed in terms of our defensive system, get an understanding where he’s at. It’s really important and he’s we brought him in for a reason. We want to see him play. Go coach Sergey and flipping him with with us. Is that just a right left thing or just Yeah, we will put him in his natural position that he gives him the best chance. Uvisis has been good. He hasn’t been irreplaceable in his game. I’m not down on his game at all. I think he’s played I think he’s become a really consist he’s fairly consistent in his pro game more so than he was last year and the year before. So, he’s made some really good improvements. We’re going to need all Did you see anything yesterday? We talked a little bit about you switching defense, but that there you had him with with Jeff. Yeah, I practices are great because you get to assess a player’s individual skill level. Um, but it doesn’t tell you how they read the game. So, those are we like what we’ve seen, but everything we saw in practice, we would have known. we would have seen in the pre-couts and all the scouting our pro scouts do and in the games that he did play that we watched. We saw that in practice. Now we want to get him in the game, see it how his game adapts to our system and if it makes him better, that’s what we’re shooting for. If it’s a game that he can excel at.
Florida Panthers coach Paul Maurice speaks before his team plays host to the Dallas Stars on Nov. 1, 2025.
Florida is coming off a 3-2 shootout loss to the Anaheim Ducks in a shootout on Tuesday.
Down 2-0, Florida got goals from Anton Lundell and Sam Reinhart to force OT.
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