Paul Maurice is entering his fourth full season as the Winnipeg Jets’ coach, having taken over from Claude Noel in January of 2014. Only 50, Maurice was the second youngest coach to win 500 games and he enters the season 11th all-time in games coached (1,365) and 16th overall in wins (596), meaning he enters the 2017-18 season only four victories shy of 600.



Maurice spoke with The Athletic’s Eric Duhatschek about the Jets’ prospects, heading into a highly anticipated 2017 training camp.



Duhatschek: I was reviewing a conversation we had at this time about a year ago and you were cautioning me that the Jets were still fully committed to integrating your kids into the line-up – and to expect there would be a learning curve. With another year of experience under their collective belts, where do things stand in terms of the evolution of a club you’ve been patiently building from the ground up?



Maurice: So just to provide some...