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It is probably not entirely a coincidence Paul Maurice finally lost his patience with the Winnipeg Jets on the third-year anniversary of the night the Jets finally lost their patience with Claude Noel.
Timing is everything, in sports as in life. And January in Winnipeg? If you're not at the end of your rope, you're not paying attention.
Until Maurice blew his gasket in the most public way imaginable during — and again after — a humiliating 7-4 loss to the Montreal Canadiens Wednesday night at the MTS Centre, January 11 was the date reserved in Jets history for the night in 2014 that Jets GM Kevin Cheveldayoff convinced team owner Mark Chipman that Noel — the only head coach Jets 2.