If it seems like Winnipeg Jets head coach Paul Maurice decided this week to get tough on undisciplined penalties, that’s because he has.
Asked Saturday morning at MTS Centre if he has escalated the consequences for players who continue to contribute to the club’s league-worst penalty tally, Maurice replied: "Maybe put it (this way) -- a stronger focus on certain types and moved to different ways of handling it."
It wasn’t a long answer, but it was the most direct comments Maurice has made on the issue in a week in which he made a couple of dramatic moves that seemed to be aimed, at least in part, at sending a message to his team that undisciplined play is going to come with increasingly severe consequences.