Bryan Murray Quotes on Hockey (8 Quotes)

You want your best players to be good every night, but they didn't have it going. Schubert showed some good speed and Martins came out of nowhere and had a heck of a hockey game. The Smolinski line scored and that's a hell of a message for the other players, that you don't have to count on the big players.

That's always a big part of playoff hockey. We had a two-on-one on the second shift of the game and we didn't get a shot on goal. In this kind of hockey you have to capitalize on opportunities. When you don't take advantage, one goal makes a big difference in a game like this.

We lose a very important guy out of our lineup, but life does go on and hockey doesn't have to be a priority all the time. We just have to get ready to play now and we'll wait for when we hear from Wade again.

I'm not going to criticize our guys. They lost a hockey game, it's a best-of-7 series. They (Tampa Bay) played really well.

There's no question - our best players have to match their best players. That's what happens on hockey teams. Certain guys get priority roles, get opportunity and ice time and all the rest of it and they have to play accordingly.

We lose an important guy in our lineup, but life goes on. Hockey doesn't take priority all the time.

You've got to like a kid like that because he is able to do those things and he's so versatile for you. He becomes a very important part of what happens on the hockey team.

I thought tonight we were quicker and we tried to challenge more. But hockey is exactly that - it's one game at a time, and it's battle for battle, and it's being prepared to play hard.