Murray postgame quotes (Nov. 10)

Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts…

(on having to kill the early penalties…)
MURRAY: “Yeah, it’s a big hole, big hole. It’s very hard to dig out of a hole like that against that team. They’re just too deep, too good. They were President’s Trophy winners for a reason. We couldn’t do it, bottom line. We tried. We worked. I liked everything that we were trying to do on the penalty kill, right through the 5-on-5 in the third period. We did a real good job with intensity and compete. I thought we were carrying the play in the third period, trying hard to get back into it. You get close, but it’s too hard to turn the tables sometimes.’’

(on facing the early 5-on-3 penalty…)
MURRAY: “Have you guys looked at the replay? No? Well, do that.’’

(on the lack of scoring from the third and fourth lines…)
MURRAY: “I liked our fourth line here tonight, with Fraser. That was his first game with the L.A. Kings, and not only did he play a pretty determined game, he made a couple plays there in the third period that gave us a look, anyway. On Stoll’s line, that’s where it kind of got out of sync a little, with everything that was going on (with penalty kills). I thought Hunter played fine. Again, I thought he played a better dot-to-board game than maybe any other game that he’s been in. He recovered some pucks, pulled them off the boards, big in front of the net. Clifford did his thing, he was gritty and strong. So that gives us some of the momentum. Would I like to see a few more goals scored there? Yeah, absolutely, and I think it will happen. Hunter’s got a resume that shows 15-18 goals a year. So, it’s there.’’