Bryan Murray Quotes on Night (7 Quotes)

Everything caught up to us tonight. We were behind them all night.

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.

The idea of having a group of players do well is having them respond to a little criticism. He took advantage of it tonight to have a big night.

Obviously, we can't give up six or seven goals a night, ... It's almost too easy for the other team. We have two of the better goaltenders in the league, and we have a defensive corps that together is pretty solid when they play. We have to find a way to get them to do their job better than they're doing it right now.

He gives us a chance every night. You might not be playing as well as you might be and he might get one early on him, but when the game gets on the line it is pretty difficult to score on this guy.

He makes a huge difference in puck skills. The one thing I thought (the Lightning) did well (Sunday) night was getting in, getting some contact and getting the puck turned over. Our second pair with Wade in it makes quite a difference. He beats that guy and he can make that tight turn and give it to the centre ice man and get it out of our zone and get an attack going.

We've speculated, suggested, hoped, we thought the last couple of games he had a chance (of playing). We had hoped for tomorrow night. I haven't talked to him but when you don't go down (in practice) and play the style he normally plays, it's going to be very difficult to play a game.