Paul Maurice knows exactly how much it hurts to be cut free from a job you love.



He’s been fired as a head coach three times — in Carolina, Toronto, and then Carolina again — and now, as the second longest tenured coach in the NHL, he has developed some wisdom on the subject.



“It’s a very personal — yet very public experience,” Maurice said after Jets practice on Thursday.



He then paused, sizing up how best to explain the pain of being fired as an NHL coach to the reporters in the room.



“This is the best analogy,” he said. “You’re in a marriage. You love the woman but it’s getting a little bit rocky. And then you come home one day and she says, ‘Paul we’re going in a different direction and there’s going to be a press conference in three hours and we’re going to talk about how great the new husband’s going to be.'”



Ouch. No wonder so...