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About This Page: This is a discussion on News within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. The next round of question from Saturday's interview with Terry Murray address some of the commonalities of his prior coaching stops and how he responds to the press who see
The next round of question from Saturday's interview with Terry Murray address some of the commonalities of his prior coaching stops and how he responds to the press who see him as the coach for right now, not the guy who can take the team the rest of the way:
I asked Terry Murray to discuss some who could reasonably suggest with his prior head coaching stops, the Capitals, Flyers and Panthers where those teams success depended on one player, that being Hunter, Bure, and Lindros. It seems a fair characterization that the Kings' success rise and fall on the back of Kopitar. Terry addressed how to preclude this team from becoming a one man and one line team.
The only way you can be successful in this game today in the National Hockey League is to have a group of guys come together as a team. It's going to take a team to have success. Your good players will always break through. Your most talented, your stars, your super stars, they will always break through and will shoulder a lot of responsibility of the team's success night in and night out.
They're the focal point, but when you have quality players who are the stars they realize they can't do it by themselves. They know and we know as coaches that it's going to take a team to do and when your star players play with this system, play with the team attitude, and encourage the fourth line guys, your fifth and sixth defensemen and pat them on the pads and say you guys did a great job tonight for the fight that you started, for the energy you brought, for the body check, for the hits, for the blocking of the shots at a critical time in the game. When those character people who are your leaders or your stars recognize everyone on your team, those guys – you become a team. These guys now are battling for him because they want him to be successful and everybody's working together and that's where it all comes. That intangible stuff that I was talking about, when you walk into the locker room, you can’t describe it but you know it's there.
It's a great feeling to have players who are playing hard for each other because (then) that fourth line guy is going over to the star player and saying – he can look him in the eye and say I give my best for you and that star player can do the same thing. That's what it's all about. That's a great attitude.
Murray then discussed his response to the press that say that he is a bridge or filler coach.
I think that's true in all sports. Coaches, and in particular in pro sports, we have in the NHL if you look at Barry Trotz probably the longest tenure in the league now, He's been there 10, 11 years. That's a very unusual scenario. I intend on being here a long time because I have confidence in doing the right thing and getting this back in the direction that – that we need to go. When I did the interview for this job I was extremely excited about hearing the game plan from management. Where are we going? What are we going to do with this? They laid everything out as you saw here today with the fans with Dean. He's very articulate, he's very organized. There's a very definite direction here. Not only is management on board, ownership is on board, everyone has signed off on it. I know what I have to do. I know my job and I have all kinds of confidence in myself and my staff here. We're going to move this thing forward and become a very competitive and highly regarded team in this league. We're going to get this team into the playoffs. We're going to get an opportunity to go deep into the playoffs. There's no guarantees. You've gotta stay – you've gotta be lucky. You've gotta be healthy. You've gotta have everything fall into place in order for that to happen. We know what has to be done in order for that to take place. So if I do my job, I can be a long bridge, but I know darn well in this business that there's going to be another coaching staff sitting over here some day. I know that and I think every coach in pro sports knows that that’s the way it goes. If you falter, the old saying is you can't fire 22 players.
Food for Thought:
Only time will tell the bridge length Murray gets in his Kings’ tenure. That being said, he responded to those who see him only as an immediate answer that had the players with that same projection taken the same attitude, well, it is unlikely the Kings would have made the play-offs last year. It seems fair to say the team would have been both more competitive and not been mathematically eliminated by Christmas.
Shame on the players who Lombardi said took over the room and helped decimate last season from both their teammates and their fans that deserved far more than the team delivered. Clichés sometimes have a basis in the truth, life is what we make it and had former Kings considered the same, every King and their fans would have been far better for it.
"We're going to move this thing forward and become a very competitive and highly regarded team in this league. We're going to get this team into the playoffs. "
Would love to see it. Not holding my breath for it this season.
__________________ "Let's go this way. It's shorter." - LGK Midget
\\"We're going to move this thing forward and become a very competitive and highly regarded team in this league. We're going to get this team into the playoffs. \\"
Would love to see it. Not holding my breath for it this season.
I don't see this happening this season either. I do see it being far closer to reality than the prior two years. It will all be for naught if they cut and run from the current process. Time will tell...
i like terry murray's attitude and he knows that someday he will be fired later on hes a pretty realistic guy nice read
__________________ July 22nd, 2007, 04:07 PM
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i like terry murray's attitude and he knows that someday he will be fired later on hes a pretty realistic guy nice read
That was my take too. Actually, my first gut thought was why didn't any of the players on the bridge/filler contracts approach it with that attitude and how different things would have been if they did. *sigh*
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