"The coaches work extremely hard," Murray said. "I see them and they're here at 7 in the morning and then they leave at night, and that's on a non-game day. And the video they do and the preparation is exhausting.
"It's every detail, and I just wonder, and do have an opinion and think that sometimes maybe they're stuck in that room preparing, and they are working hard, that maybe they could put a coffee in their hand once in a while and do two hours of video and not three and get out and get to know our players and talk to our players, and it's about coaching individuals a little more and coaching system a little less. That's my opinion; I believe that's the right way."
Murray said he was able to find positives in some players Buffalo wants to build around.
"I think from a playoff standpoint it's disappointing, and I guess it stalled," he said. "But I think from an individual-player-development standpoint, that's what I'm a big part of and believe in, I think (center) Jack Eichel took big steps. I think (center) Sam [Reinhart] took steps. I think [defenseman Jake] McCabe and [defenseman Rasmus] Ristolainen in the first half of the year especially, or the first two-thirds of the year, took big steps.
"I believe there was big progression from [an] individual-player standpoint. If [forward prospect Nicholas] Baptiste comes up here and eventually becomes a 30-goal scorer, are we going to look back and say that this year was a stall? I don't see it that way from an individual-player-development standpoint. From a playoff standpoint, we stalled. So I think they're separate."
