Murray postgame quotes

Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts…

(on Wayne Simmonds’ game…)
MURRAY: “Simmonds had a real good game, when you score two goals, and good goals. Power play, and I really liked the second goal, on the cycle. He was moving his feet, and that’s the reason why he’s been playing, in my opinion, really well in the last dozen games. He’s doing the right things in the offensive zone, in deep. When he gets the puck on his stick, he’s creating some separation, and now everything opens up to make some plays and to get some scoring chances.”

(on scoring goals in different ways…)
MURRAY: “The rush was a really good goal. That’s something you work at hard, all year long, where you get that drive, drive, drive attitude. Stoll drives through to the net, he backs off the defenseman and Brownie comes in late and finds Doughty and executes the play the right way. That’s the way you diagram it. So, nice goal. A huge goal, obviously, to be the game-winner. But I kind of liked the one that went into the empty net too, in a critical situation. [laughs] It relieved a little bit of the pressure that was on us.”

(on the importance of upcoming games…)
MURRAY: “We’ve got some home games. We’re in a tight race to make the playoffs. The opportunity is there for us. We can control our own destiny, I think, with a strong homestand. So Colorado is a game that we’ve got to make sure we’re focused, doing the right things. I talked to the players after the game here tonight. We just have to be a lot better than we were here tonight, in order to win games, as we get going here forward.”

(on getting scoring contributions from defensemen…)
MURRAY: “When you get a guy like Doughty, Jack Johnson, Mitchell jumps into the play and he’s a great skater. You have to get your back end really involved in the offensive part of the game today. The structure of teams playing in front of you, in their checking game, it’s very hard to attack with just three, on a consistent basis, and hope for good things to happen. The only way is secondary attack, and that’s exactly what we saw with Doughty tonight.”