There were three television stations to watch in the Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, of Paul Maurice’s youth. A French station. WKBD from Detroit, 300 miles south. And CBC, which his family gathered around any Saturday night the kids weren’t playing hockey to watch that week’s game on “Hockey Night in Canada.”
“My mom would make a pot of spaghetti or chili, and we’d watch hockey,’’ the Florida Panthers coach said.
His first memory is at age 5.
“You knew that you were getting old...