A buddy and I were rehashing the Penguins’ scintillating Game 2 triumph over Tampa Bay when the subject turned to goalie Matt Murray.
My friend commented that Murray seemed “off.”
I agreed.
Not that the kid didn’t tough it out and make some huge saves. He’s got a wonderful mental makeup—a resilience between the pipes that his teammates just love.
“Matt is a mental rock back there,” Ben Lovejoy told Jonathan Bombulie of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. “He’s able to put goals behind him. He does an amazing job of just stopping the next puck.