Murray, on bouncing back
Here are Terry Murray's thoughts about the Kings' need to bounce back from last night's dreadful 6-2 loss to Calgary...
``It was the first game, out of the 20 that we've played, that was well below par, way below the bar. I guess you could go back to the first game at San Jose as well. But we came away from that and while we weren't pleased with what happened, at the end of the day we still had half the team where we said, `Hey, they did a pretty good job.' Last night was one of those you wanted to move by quickly. I felt from the beginning that we didn't have it. The passing, the receiving and the coordinated effort we've been seeing just wasn't there. The key is, how do we respond against Edmonton? We want a good result, a good response to a subpar effort. That's part of the growth process, the need for mental toughness and the attitude of, we need to come back with a solid team effort. We need to execute for the entire 60 minutes.''
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shouldn't be too hard for them to bounce back. NASA engineers have crunched the numbers and determined it is mathematically impossible for the team to play any worse than they did last night.
How this team bounces back from these types of games is really important. As a young team this will happen. How they bounce back and react to a bad game will show us what they are really made of. Let's not over react to a bad game.