Carolina Hurricanes coach Rod Brind'Amour said he was surprised when Florida Panthers coach Paul Maurice asked him not to participate in their series-ending handshake line last week and disagreed that it should just be for the players.

Maurice has attempted to start a new tradition in the NHL in which team coaches and staff don't participate in the handshake line, a decades-old ritual held at center ice after teams are eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

He asked Toronto Maple Leafs coach Craig Berube to stand down in the second round, and Berube obliged. He asked Brind'Amour to do the same after the Panthers eliminated the Hurricanes in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals in Raleigh. Maurice said he appreciated Brind'Amour agreeing to it.

"There's this long list of peopl

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