Murray postgame quotes

Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts…

(on Chicago’s winning goal…)
MURRAY: “That’s bad luck. That comes off the boards or off the glass, almost went off Quick’s head, I think, when it came over the top of the crossbar. That’s bad luck, but I guess when you’re the Stanley Cup champion you probably get breaks, you probably get lucky bounces like that. I really felt that we shouldn’t have put ourselves in that situation. I felt the start of the game was excellent.  Everything we wanted to do with the intensity, knowing they were a team that played yesterday, and (we) had a lot of offensive zone time. Second period, we were fine for the first four or five minutes and then the intensity changed, the tempo changed and we got ourselves in trouble. We stopped managing the puck the right way. We forgot about the details of the game. We were not bumping people away. We were in the first period, and they got their legs. They started to skate and came at us.”

(on Sharp’s play against the Kings…)
MURRAY: “He’s got great speed and quickness. He doesn’t need much of an opening, much of an opportunity to take advantage of those situations. He’s a good player.”

(on a possible letdown after Chicago tied the game in the first period…)
MURRAY: “It’s a power-play goal. That should not effect you. That’s a good player who scored the goal. He took it to the net hard. That is Hossa’s favorite play on the power play. We know that. And he puts it in. But that should not have an effect on you, the way it did in the last three quarters of that second period. But our details, our attention to the details, broke down, and it cost us again against the Chicago Blackhawks. I feel exactly the same way about the games that we played in Chicago this year, the two games. Those were games that we were much better than what it ends up looking like, as just another loss. We played well, and then we make that mistake, that fundamental, simple play that young players make, I guess.”

(on being swept by Chicago…)
MURRAY: “The good teams just do it consistently every time, every shift. You just play. It’s like the pro playing against the 5-handicap golfer. He just has to play the game, because he knows, if you’re a 5-handicapper, something is going to give, somewhere down the road. You’re going to make that decision with the puck, you’re going to make the bad pass, and there’s going to maybe be that opportunity in the game. Some days, that 5-handicap golfer might win the game, but unfortunately I think we shot ourselves in the foot again here tonight, with the intensity and with the details with the puck. That puck that we have at our blue line, on the third goal, that should never happen. That should never come back into our zone, and that’s the thought process that we have to clean up.”

(on the losing streak…)
MURRAY: “I’m going to give them the day off tomorrow. We’ve just got to regroup. We’ve played a lot of games. They need to regroup physically. We need to think about ourselves, about our game, and get back to work. We can’t let it effect us. We’ve got to be mature enough, now, to blow through that stuff and be excited about the next opponent, to turn this thing around.”

(on a possible loss of confidence…)
MURRAY: “I don’t (see it), because I really liked the way we played the last couple games. I talked about the second period here tonight, but jeez, I sure liked the way we played against San Jose. We did everything right. We had a shot mentality. We were checking well. We only gave up six scoring chances in the whole game. So you’ve got to build on that positive stuff, and that’s what we’ve got to do tonight. We’ve got to find a way to take a look at the first and third periods and say, `Pretty good stuff.’ We’ve got to be much more disciplined. These penalties that are happening, that are costing us right now, some of them are a little like it’s almost a get-even attitude out there. It’s me before the team, and that will never work with me.”