Murray postgame quotes

Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts…

(on the ragged nature of the game…)
MURRAY: “It was a hard game. There was no flow to the game. You get five guys back in the neutral zone, like they way they were playing, and it really bogs things down and slows it. It takes all the flow away. You have to make the decisions to get the puck behind their goal line, or at least to their goal line. To me, that’s where we started having issues with that in the first period, trying to do too much, trying to carry it in, refusing to dump the puck in, and you end up kind of chasing everything out there.”

(on Quick’s game…)
MURRAY: “He was sharp. He was real alert. He found a lot of pucks. There was a lot of traffic around our net. There were cycles going on. The Koivu line played good, with the other line, Perry and Ryan. They do a lot of good work, with holding onto the puck and taking it hard to the net. But he found the puck from the blue line, looking through traffic. He looks like he’s back on top.”

(on the message to the team…)
MURRAY: “You want to build off the games we’ve played recently. We’ve come out with very good efforts, right from the very beginning, and we got ourselves in trouble with turnovers again. It is a young group of guys who have a very hard time understanding how important it is to establish certain parts of your game. We definitely have to learn from this one. … The decisions within the game allow you to get offensive opportunities. We were trying to do too much. We have to elevate the tempo. We have to tighten things up and give ourselves closer support. We know how to play. It’s not hard to understand. It’s just that the young guys need to buy into it completely for us to be successful in the playoffs.”