It’s still quite a ways down the road, but Feb. 3 will be a special day, when Terry Murray and his Kings face the Ottawa Senators, whose general manager is Terry’s older brother Bryan. There shouldn’t be much conflict, given that the Murrays can only face each other twice in any regular season, and Terry Murray talked today about how his relationship with his brother has been impacted since he joined the Kings…

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Question: Do you and your brother Bryan get to talk a lot during the season?

MURRAY: “We haven’t since the start, yet, but yeah, we do get in touch and talk.”

Question: Phone or e-mail?

MURRAY: “Both. We do both. Sometimes I have people e-mailing me for tickets to the Ottawa games, so I pass those along. But yeah, we talk, and we will pretty soon here, now that we’ve got our season underway.”

Question: Do you commiserate about things, or just general chat?

MURRAY: “Most of the time, it’s just about how things are going family-wise. A little bit of the hockey, but not much, even when we get together in the summertime and go golfing, there’s not a lot of hockey usually. It’s, `Let’s play golf and have a beer after and talk about family.’ We kind of catch up that way. I missed the big family reunion this summer (in Quebec). He had everybody out at his place on the lake. That’s kind of been an annual get-together, and I wasn’t able to make it this year because of this opportunity coming along. So I missed it. It’s such a big family, with all the grandkids and great-grandkids, there’s over 100 (people) that show up to this thing. It’s a great opportunity to keep in touch with everybody.”

Question: Is it a law that every Canadian has to have a cottage on the lake?

MURRAY: “I have one on the same lake that Bryan is on. It was pretty nice there for a couple years. If you’re going to be a Canadian, you better make sure you have a piece of land on the end of the lake. Absolutely.”