Murray postgame quotes

Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts…

(on his postgame message to the team…)
MURRAY: “That’s in-house.”

(on the loss…)
MURRAY: “It’s a 0-0 game. Nichol and Doughty get involved. They score two (goals) on a 4-on-4. Up until that point, the game is a pretty good game. We kill off a 5-on-3, we kill off a double-minor. It’s a pretty good game. I don’t think it was out of control. I don’t think they had a grasp on the game. So everything was good. There’s a 4-on-4. They score two goals. That’s a terrible… You can’t lose Doughty to Nichol. But Nichol, give him credit. He’s the reason why they won tonight. Because they scored two goals on it, and then they end up scoring a goal on the double-minor, Greene in the box. So it’s three goals directly responsible from Nichol’s play. A 3-2 game, we battled back. I really liked our compete, coming back to get back and make it 3-2. It’s a good game. Then, whatever happened in the third period, with giveaways, turnovers, lost faceoffs, that’s sometimes a hard one to explain.”

(on Doughty needing to stay poised…)
MURRAY: “It’s hard not to get involved. The guy took a run at him from the blue line. They’re chirping at each other coming up the ice. They both go at each other. It’s hard. I don’t know if he could have skated away. I think they’re engaged. I don’t think he could have got away from it. Maybe the referee or linesman, maybe one of our players could have stepped in between, to separate them. Anyway, it didn’t happen. You just don’t want to lose your top defenseman to a player of that stature. If you’re going to lose him to a Thornton or a Marleau, then you’ll take that exchange. That was a very costly move.”

(Re emotions of the game): “I thought our emotions were under control. I think the Sharks lost their composure at the end. With Heatley’s penalty, the slew-foot on Martinez, that’s a dangerous play. He’s going back for pucks. That’s a very dangerous play. That’s where you break your leg. That’s where you blow your knee out. I hate that play. That’s a gutless move, in my mind. A gutless move. You just don’t do that in hockey. You never did 30 years ago, and you can’t get away with it. That should have been more than a two-minute minor. That’s a major. That’s a game misconduct.”

(on thoughts of pulling Quick…)
MURRAY: “There was none. Sometimes a goalie has to play through it. It’s his game and he’s got to work his way through it. You look at the goals. We’re going back for a puck. It’s just our defensemen and one of their forwards. We turn the puck over. They have a tap-in in front of the net. That’s not the goaltender’s fault. We lose a faceoff, they shoot the puck from the right point, we left our coverage, center-on-center, Pavelski redirects the puck and it’s in the net. So that’s not goaltending. Changing the goaltender at that time, I think, sends the wrong message to the team. Everybody is in this thing together.”

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