Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts…
(on Greene’s goal…)
MURRAY: “A great play by Frolov. He does his thing down deep in the offensive zone. He holds onto it and he finds people, and it’s a matter of getting pucks to the net sometimes. That’s what we keep telling our guys, that good things can happen.”
(on overcoming the early part of the first period…)
MURRAY: “Columbus came out and played well. I don’t know if we started poorly or… I would give them a lot of credit. They came out with a big push, and Jonathan Quick was the reason why we were still at 0-0 after a couple of their power plays. Sometimes what you need to have from your goaltender on the road is a readiness to play and play very intense. We got organized after that and settled it down. The second goal was very big for us. Obviously, Kopitar coming in and scoring, it helps you to settle down even a little more, to start to play the game the way you know how.”
(on what is driving the team on this good stretch of play…)
MURRAY: “Playoffs. Playoffs is the driving force. We had a great start to the season. We had some bumps along the road, a little bit of a dry spell, and the next thing you know, we’re right there on that (playoff) cut-off line, and it was important to get back into the thick of things by playing better hockey. We just stayed with it. I thought, even during a couple of those losses, we played very well and just didn’t come out on the right side of it. But we stayed with it, and now we’ve got a few wins under our belt, confidence is better. So it’s a good thing. We continue with this road trip now, two more games.”
(on winning games that the Kings are now generally expected to win…)
MURRAY: “It highlights the `belief’ attitude that the players have, going into each one of those games now. We’ve had problems with Columbus. They’re a big team, they’re a heavy team. They’ve come into our building and played some very hard games against us, and in here we haven’t had a lot of success. So when you do get on a roll, and you do start to play and win games, you do start to develop an attitude that, hey, you’re a good hockey club. When you know the reason why you’re winning some games, if you stay with it, and follow through every shift, every situation is a very important compete situation. It’s a 60-minute game, and you can recover.”
Great game tonight. Solid team effort all around. These games vs teams that are below us are W’s we need. Looking for another two points on Saturday (and Sunday). GKG!
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Great win Kings!!!
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I like our coach!
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Yeah, TM is the man. As I’ve said in the past, he’s the best coach the kings have had in a long long time
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Looks like it is 4-1 night. Did anyone notice that the Eastern conference teams 7 – 13 are only seperated by one point? Boston is in this mix. They will come out hard early, much like this game.
Second point, the tightness of the race will limit sellers, which means trades will cost more this year.
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I’m watchingthe PHX CGY game and the crowed sounds like a home game in Calgary, but nope it’s just Phoenex
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I thought TM was the best coach in the league last year. I believe that is true again this year.
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What a good coach does? Making right adjustment game by game is one thing but making players believe that they are playing with right system is the most important thing. And I think TM is doing it.
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I dunno, not a Murray basher, but it seems like Frolov made that same play last time we were in Columbus but the pass was picked off – next thing you know Frolov is benched. Tonight he makes the same play, but this time it ends up a goal, so it’s a great play?
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Frolov’s benching was not about one play so much as it was the culmination of — as they say in boxing — ‘an accumulation of blows.’ Look at Frolov’s play before he was bench, and then after. He hasn’t set the league on fire, but he has been more effective. And the Kings are winning.
I believe that says as much as needs to be said about Terry Murray as coach of this team.
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Darren,
I think it is also a matter of context. It was a different play because it was made at a point where the pass had a high probability of making it to Greene.
It was a high percentage play this time based on the positioning of the opposing players and it was made with Frolov’s head up.
The other times he has led to giveaways making similar plays they were made with his head down without noting the paths the opposing players were on and being unaware of the situation.
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TM…..”The second goal was very big for us.”
Hey Terry, the FIRST one wasn’t bad either…throw the guy a bone….
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Actually, Jim Fox said exactly the same thing about the Frolov plays. Same play, different result, different response.
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Great to see the Kings winning the type of games they used to regularly lose, different attitude , different culture… now its all about consistency and taking it one shift at a time…The Kings will have a large representation of fans at the game in Boston , the Manchester Monarchs the Kings AHL affiliate is only one hour north of Boston … Monarchs Nation will be out in full force at the Boston Garden as we always are when the KIngs make a rare appearance here .. always great to see our former players on the Kings, unfortunately the Monarchs will be out of town playing the Hartford Wolfpack on Saturday in CT as im sure a lot of them would have come to the game..
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Reno-
Yeah I was watching the Yotes game, and thought the same thing. I think Canadian fans make a point a point of being louder, and at times more obnoxious, when they are in other teams buildings. It doesn’t help that even when the arena (Jobing.com) is full of Yotes fans it’s not that loud.
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I’m finding myself enjoying the road games more than the home games…… that’s a bit frustrating… but the boys seem to really come together on the road trips.
GO KINGS!
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In the old days, in a game where the home team came out with the type of fire that Columbus came out with, the Kings would have been pounded early and never have rebounded in time to get close to a tie. It shows what an impact Quick is making. I have no idea if Quick has an understanding of the Kings Goalie History, but I wonder if he appreciates what the upgrade he has been to this franchise.
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