Brett Murray Post Skate Media | 05.21.2025
Mr. You guys are now in Laval. Does anything shift just being on the road and being in this environment versus home? Uh, no, I don’t think so. I think uh, you know, I I think we can play play anywhere on the road. I think our our record in the regular season showed that. Um, you know, we’re pretty mentally strong team when it comes to to, you know, hostile environments and, you know, we played here quite a bit. So, we know what to expect and honestly we’re excited to to hear the noise. Um, obviously we love the Blue Cross cuz the noise is for us, but uh, you know, noise is is good either way. So, one of the things that we just talked with Leo about, he said that especially with you guys getting in a day early here on Monday is people can forget what it’s like to just be in the moment to just be around this time of year. You know, there’s eight teams left playing and you guys are one of them. You’ve been around with this team for six seasons. How important is it as somebody who has also been in this round before, been to the final four to just above all else have fun and enjoy this camaraderie? Oh, yeah. I mean, that’s exactly it. Um, I couldn’t put it any better. I think uh I think you just got to remember, you know, it’s just hockey, right? Um, you know, yeah, it’s a professional sport and, you know, it’s a job, but it’s it’s it’s just hockey. You know, you play your whole life for for moments. Um, you know, moments like this. I know this isn’t the finals or the conference finals or anything, but you need to win this one to to get there. Um, and it’s just as exciting and um, playing hockey in warm weather and in Rochester is so much fun. So, you have had success as an individual on the power play, but when this team is clicking on the man advantage, what do you see going right? Not just you at the net front, but collectively from the group. Oh, I mean I think uh the obvious one is is Kale Kle uh from his from his office there. That’s working. It’s it’s working for all of us. But uh you know when it comes to systems and effort level it’s all there. It’s all execution. Um you know and our execution’s on play making’s there and and we’re getting chances and not only you know you might you’re not supposed to score every power play. It’ be nice to score every power play but that’s just not the way it works. Um but just being able to to take momentum from, you know, our man advantage, um creating opportunities and and bringing it into back into five on-5 play if we don’t score or or something doesn’t happen. So, um yeah, like I said, taking taking that momentum and bringing it back into five on five and and then maybe carrying it into the next five on four. So, you’ve scored a lot of goals on a lot of different goalies. They have two. We really don’t know who’s going to start. Uh does it matter? Does it change whether it’s shot selection or uh attack of the net front? One weakness that maybe Fowler has that Primo doesn’t or vice versa. Uh not necessarily. Um I think uh I think when we’re playing our game, when we’re playing fast, um shouldn’t matter what goalie you put in front of us. Uh you know, we got some some very talented goal scorers um playmakers. Um so I think if uh if we’re on then it shouldn’t matter. I know a lot of the focus tends to be about just what this team can do and this team’s identity. What did this team do? What did the Amirs do differently in game two that resulted in a win versus game one? Oh, I think uh you know, we talk about a lot is just playing to our identity. Um if we played our identity, I don’t think there’s a team that can that can keep up with us, you know, when it comes to, you know, foot speed and play making. And um so I think when it came to game two, I think we focused more on ourselves and we stopped that feeling out process that we maybe we we kind of were a little timid going into game one and try to to see what was going to happen, what the series was going to be like. Um and uh game two we came out and just said, you know, screw it. This is this is going to be our game. We’re going to play the way we want to play and and you can either play to us or, you know, you can lose. So sweet. Thanks.
