Sunday practice

By Rich Hammond on January 4, 2009 12:34 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

Nothing terribly new or exciting to report. Practice was fairly lengthy (about an hour) and had a long conditioning skate at the end. Guys who played more minutes last night were allowed to skate less.

I'll have some of Terry Murray's thoughts about Anze Kopitar's play, plus some thoughts about offense vs. defense during the development process. Murray wasn't ready to name a starting goalie for Monday and it seems likely that Quick and Ersberg will split the Anaheim games. Murray was pleased with Quick's game last night.

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