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Murray postgame quotes (Oct. 20)

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Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts…

(on being able to roll four lines…)
MURRAY: “The contribution was huge tonight from the fourth line. Right from the first period, their first shifts, they had the energy and the awareness to support each other, getting pucks in, and had good energy stuff going on in the offensive zone. Westie gets invovled with Bissonnette and I think we fed off a lot of the energy that they gave us tonight.’’

(on handling the Coyotes’ strong start…)
MURRAY: “They lost the other night here at home against Chicago but played very well in their previous game. We saw the energy on the video, the way they are capable of coming out and playing, and here tonight they played very well at the start of the game. I thought we kind of were feeling our way a little bit in the first part of the game. The fourth line was the one line that seemed to be going for us. I think it gave us the support and the dig-in attitude, as we got into the second.’’

(on the defense limiting the pressure against Quick…)
MURRAY: “Not a lot, but in the early part of the game, the first period, I think we gave up several quality scoring chances, grade-A scoring chances, just through that good play of Phoenix and us not managing the puck well enough, just not ready to go emotionally and mentally with the pace of the game. Quick stood tall at that time, in the early part of the game, and finally we got a power-play goal and then a tremendous goal by the fourth line.’’

(on the game…)
MURRAY: “As we got into the second and third period, I think we just picked up our pace of play. We started to play the type of game that we showed against the Blues in our home opener. I thought we played well there. We moved the puck well. We were a little hesitant (early in the game), had the puck on our stick a little too long in our D-zone in the first period, and I think the Coyotes, they really fed off of that. They created some turnovers, some great scoring chances, and that’s where Quick had to step up for us in the first.’’

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