If Terry Murray and the Kings never hear the word “twins” again after this series, they will probably be happy. Chances are, they will even be boycotting the awesome 1988 movie “Twins,” featuring the governor and Danny DeVito. Murray gets daily questions about how to deal with Vancouver’s Daniel and Henrik Sedin, and yesterday Murray deadpanned an answer about how we try to control the twins in Game 5. “We’re going to try to get Handzus out there against them and Scuderi and Doughty,” The coach paused, then said, “No, that’s the same thing we’ve been doing.” Murray and the media laughed, but then Murray did share his thoughts…
MURRAY: “We’re going to stay with it. I liked what we did. We competed hard. We had our scoring chances against that line. I know, on the road, there’s going to be two lines ready to go. The Kopitar line is a line that I have a lot of confidence in, on the checking part of the game against them. Same thing on the back end. They’re going to be looking to match up, probably against defensemen than against the lines, so we’re going to have to be responsible and do a good job. We have to recognize that whenever the Sedins are out there, it’s a defensive situation, and stay above it.”
If we can play a full throttle sixty minute game I definetly like our chances. Slow starts,slow finishes can not be tolerated at this point in the series. That being said, lets get the “W” on the road, and bring it home to close it out. GO KINGS GO!
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“i’m yr brutha julius…!”
TJB…
ditto…:)
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There are always at least four other Canucks players on the ice who are not twins, and the thing to do is to do everything to force the play to them, preferably in their own zone, which has worked well for most of the series.
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…except when they’re shorthanded…
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It would have been nice if Murray had used that defensive strategy during the 3rd period, instead of losing the matchup battle when it counted.
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I wonder what happened to allow the Sedin line on without our checking line or DD-Scuds out at the same time. In any case, Smyth over-played the puck, OD couldn’t slow down Henrik, and Green was doing his job, which is taking the pass away. We needed a game-breaking save from Quick, and didn’t get it. I take it back to the breakout chance by Frolov, which of course he missed. He has to bury that in a playoff game, regardless of his tendency to choke in those situations, and Quick needs to stop that puck…but I’ll give credit in that was a play that reminded us why H. Sedin won the Hart. In all reality, Quick should have had the Demitra goal and with the other missed chances, the game was ours to lose in the 3rd.
Woulda, coulda, shoulda. On to Game 5.
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