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Two of Canada's best NHL teams to face off
Paul Maurice remembers it all too well. It was only a couple short seasons ago that all seven NHL teams north of the border missed the Stanley Cup playoffs, the first time the land of maple syrup was frozen out of the annual spring hockey fling since 1970.
“We were all getting pounded in our individual city for failure and incompetence,” Maurice, head coach of the Winnipeg Jets, said Wednesday of the 2015-16 season.