Murray postgame quotes

Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts…

(on the game…)
MURRAY: “That’s as bad as it gets in the second period, for sure. I’m only going to talk about this for a very brief time here, because you could go a lot of different ways with this. You give them credit, I think. They scored a power-play goal.They are a very good team on the power play.  They have been all year long and I know they’ve been spending time, in their couple of days off here, working on it and they executed it and got a power-play goal there in the second period. But outside of that, we did this to ourselves, with our puck management, with whatever you want to call it, turnovers, not getting it in when you’re supposed to get it in deep and trying to do way too much. We got caught out for extended shifts. There are guys out there in the second period for, I bet there was two-and-a-half minutes where we couldn’t get a line change, especially with our defensemen. So you’re exhausted, you’re getting rattled, you start doing things that are very uncharacteristic obviously, and now they’re playing the game they want. They get into a track meet. That’s the game they wanted, after getting down 4-0. We obliged them, and all of the problems came our way because of what we were doing.”

(on whether the Kings “let off the gas pedal” with the big lead…)
MURRAY: “You can describe it, you can use whatever they want to talk about it, but it’s about making plays with the puck. It’s about composure. If you do the right things with the puck as you get through the middle of the ice, to get it in behind like we were in the first period, then there’s no let-up in any area. There’s no letting your foot off the gas pedal or whatever you want to talk about. You’re continuing to play the right way. We stopped playing. We gave them the opportunity. Heck, they’re down 4-0. Why wouldn’t you play relaxed. You’re rolling three lines and they come right at us and they took it to us, big time.”

(on whether the Kings were aggressive enough in the second period…)
MURRAY: “Well, they score in the early part of the second period and probably three minutes later they score again. Now it’s a power play after that, about seven minutes later. That’s fine, but the little things are starting to show, and they identified it, they countered on us, they played extended shifts in our end and they kicked the door wide open.”

(on the possibility of calling timeout or changing goalies…)
MURRAY: “No, I wasn’t thinking about changing goalies. The goals are far apart. The two at the end of the period are the only ones that are close. They scored on a power play in there. We come right back and make it a 5-3 game. We have plenty of TV timeouts to talk about the stuff I just talked about with you right now, which we were doing. The attention was there but we, for some reason, refused to do what we were supposed to do.”

(on how to overcome this loss…)
MURRAY: “Well, we bounced back in the third period. We weren’t getting shots through but (had) the right attitude, as far as getting back to doing what we needed to do, to play the game the right way. Then you get yourself into the overtime. So we bounced back from the disaster in the second period to play much better. I already addressed it at the group, at the end of both periods, the second and the third. So everybody knows what’s on my mind.”