Say one thing for certain about Terry Murray: he’s not being wishy-washy with his goaltending. Jason LaBarbera will be back in goal tonight, barring any last-second changes, and will be making his eighth consecutive start even though he’s been pulled from two of the last three games. Murray discusses his thought process with the goalies…

Question: Any thoughts on the goaltending situation?

MURRAY: “Yes, I’ve had lots. Lots of thoughts on the goaltending. Barbs will go back in (Monday). There’s an urgency on our part, in front of him, to do the right things with the puck as we start the game. You know that Nashville is going to come at you with a lot of intensity and team speed. They were sitting there watching our game (Friday against St. Louis) on television, and we have to manage that the right way as a team. You slow things down. You take a lot of faceoffs. You get pucks to the net in the offensive zone and you go to the net, you stop and force the goaltender to hold onto it. You take that intensity, you take that speed away, and that’s a learned skill. That’s something that we have to start to do and identify. The players need to do that themselves. I think that with us trying to force things, we turned it over and they came back at us and they got a couple goals that I think, in most situations, we wouldn’t have given up. So I don’t look at the goaltending. You always need big saves, you know that, but I don’t look at a couple of those goals (Saturday) night as isolating one player.”