Hockey's Murray boys

By Rich Hammond on October 16, 2008 4:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) |

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.''

2 Comments

cristobal

said:

Does anyone remember that game a few years back where Ottawa went into a roid-rage against the Kings and Emery got into some fisticuffs while some ASS jumped on Mikko Eloranta of all people? Adam Mair jumped off the bench to go to Eloranta's aid and got suspended for about 14 games. Absolutely disgraceful behavior by Murray's Senators and they showed their nastiness in the playoffs against the Ducks when Alfredsson tried to fire the puck into S Neidermeyers face. BMurray did a good job building the Ducks into a strong and young team, but I have always thought he was a jerk that would risk seriously injuring another teams players. I think he was even fined a number of times for throwing guys on the ice to brawl when there were only seconds left on the clock. Andy Murray frequently tried to take the High Road in these situations and seemed to hold back in the violence department, and I thought BMurray knew this and would take liberties. Many of these guys haven't been Kings long, but I wonder if there are any bitter feelings in Brown or Armstrong?

October 16, 2008 4:50 PM

Harry said:

Hey Murry, Can you send a couple of tickets or Chairman lounge vouchers my way too??

;)

October 16, 2008 4:52 PM

J.P. Hoornstra writes about NHL and IHL hockey for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group. He welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey. E-mail J.P. at jp.hoornstra
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Jill Painter joined the Daily News in 2000 and during the last eight years she's covered the Dodgers, Cal State Northridge, UCLA, Kings, golf and everything in between. Even though she's from Colorado, she still freezes in the Staples Center press box but always manages to thaw her fingers in time to make deadline. E-mail Jill at jill.painter@dailynews
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