Brind'Amour says handshake line for coaches, too

Carolina Hurricanes manager Rod Brind'Amour said helium was amazed erstwhile Florida Panthers manager Paul Maurice asked him not to enactment successful their series-ending handshake enactment past week and disagreed that it should conscionable beryllium for the players.

Maurice has attempted to commencement a caller contented successful the NHL successful which squad coaches and unit don't enactment successful the handshake line, a decades-old ritual held astatine halfway crystal aft teams are eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

He asked Toronto Maple Leafs manager Craig Berube to basal down successful the 2nd round, and helium obliged. He asked Brind'Amour to bash the aforesaid aft the Panthers eliminated the Hurricanes successful Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Final successful Raleigh. Maurice said helium appreciated Brind'Amour agreeing to it.

"There's this agelong database of radical successful suits and way suits. We had similar 400 radical connected the ice. They're each truly important to our group, but not 1 of them was successful the game. There's thing for maine visually with the camera connected conscionable the men who played. Who blocked shots and who fought for each other," Maurice said.

At the Hurricanes' postseason media availability connected Tuesday, Brind'Amour said helium understood Maurice's constituent of view. But helium said participating successful the handshake is astir "gracious losing" and helium won't proceed Maurice's contented adjacent season.

"Sitting backmost connected it and reflecting, I've had immoderate beauteous impactful memories and moments successful that enactment arsenic a manager going done it," helium said.

Brind'Amour noted that contented gives him a accidental to person a infinitesimal with players helium utilized to coach, specified arsenic erstwhile helium shook the hands of erstwhile Hurricanes players that are present connected the New Jersey Devils during Carolina's first-round win.

"Moving forward, I deliberation I'll astir apt spell backmost to it conscionable due to the fact that it's a motion of respect. That's the mode I look astatine it. We're not retired determination connected the crystal battling, but we're close successful determination with these guys," Brind'Amour said. "He won, truthful I benignant of went, 'OK, I'm going to travel your pb successful that.' But I bash deliberation it's important, to maine anyway, to amusement respect to the players."

Maurice, whose archetypal caput coaching occupation was with Hartford successful 1995, said unit didn't ever instrumentality portion successful the handshake enactment and helium was trying to reorient the spotlight connected the players.

"When I archetypal got successful the league, helium would ne'er spell shingle the players. Some manager wanted to get connected camera. It was the lone happening I tin fig out," Maurice said.

"I deliberation there's a truly nice, benignant of beauteous portion of our crippled conscionable the players shaking hands astatine the end. When you deliberation of each the large competitions connected the ice, they're not sending Christmas cards to each other. This was nasty retired there. And yet they shingle hands similar that. That's special," helium said.

Maurice's reigning-champion Panthers are facing the Edmonton Oilers successful the Stanley Cup Final for the 2nd consecutive season. Game 1 is Wednesday night.