Terry Murray was asked whether last night’s uneven effort — solid in the first and third periods, dreadful in the second — could be attributed to the normal ups and downs of a young roster. Murray wouldn’t have any part of it…

MURRAY: “No. That’s not allowed. Youth has nothing to do with it. We made some mistakes in the second period. We had some problems managing the puck again, and the experience of their team took advantage of it. You have that lapse of about 12 minutes in the second, where it ends up costing you the game. I liked a lot of the stuff we did in the third period. It was a tremendous third period, with our effort and focus and doing the right stuff. We just have to figure that out and do it for 60 minutes.”

Here are a couple other general quotes from after last night’s game…

DUSTIN BROWN: “That was a weird game out there, I think. We had a pretty good first period. We have one breakdown and they score and it’s 1-1. It seems like that’s kind of how the game went. Every time we broke down, they capitalized. Our PK was good again tonight, but we made one bad pass coming out of the zone and it was in our net. I felt like we were chasing a lot though tonight. We weren’t making the plays that we’re capable of, coming out of our zone. Not necessarily dumping it in, but neutral-zone play. We were just flipping it into the neutral zone and chasing, and they were coming right back at us. We played a pretty good third period, but we didn’t put it all together tonight.”

DREW DOUGHTY: “We can’t take a period off. The first period we were good, then in the second we definitely took it off, and that’s when they took it to us and made it 4-2. Then in the third period we took it back to them and were all over them.”