Bryan Murray made the NHL a better place.
He made us smile more. He made us feel better about the game and about the league. He could tell a story with the best of them, and laugh when the story was about him.
“I loved working with him,” said David Poile, who became general manager in Washington when Murray was the interim coach. “He had a way about him, he was a coach, a teacher, a businessman, a general manager. He really could do everything. I learned more from him than he learned from me.
“And if anything was going wrong, he wanted to have a meeting.