Murray postgame quotes

Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts…

(on the improved play after the first period…)
MURRAY: “Killing off three penalty kills in the first period, that was very demanding, after getting a game in last night and traveling. Back-to-back after the All-Star break, it’s a hard, demanding game to play here tonight for us, but guys dug in. We had good pressure on the puck. We were really active and didn’t give them too many opportunities to get set up. Whenever we needed him, Quick was there.”

(on the special-teams play…)
MURRAY: “I would say special teams (were important), for sure. Edmonton had five power plays and they didn’t get anything, so there was good penalty-killing on our side of it. Then we scored a couple power-play goals. It definitely was, in the first two periods, a game of power plays.”

(on Quick’s play…)
MURRAY: “Quick was good. Edmonton moved the puck. They come at you with a lot of speed. There’s a lot of activity in the offensive zone, and they’ve got some real skilled players who can create. They found some players off the back door and we got breaks a couple times, just with us getting a stick on a puck. Then, when we needed him, Quick was there to make a couple very big stops for us.”

(on the Kings’ offensive-zone pressure…)
MURRAY: “It took us a little while to get going, as we talked about. The first period was a lot of penalty-kill time. But in the second and third periods, I thought we took the puck to the net hard a couple times. We had good cycles going. We had net presence for most of that two-thirds of the game, and that was something that was talked about, pregame. We had to get better in that area. Khabibulin is one of the better goalies in the league, and if you let him see the puck, he’s going to make the stop. So traffic was good. It worked on the first couple goals we got, and we just continued to follow through with it.”