He said Monday he didn't view the time he missed as helpful in terms of rest or freshness.
"I don't know, when you're hurt, you're still putting in long days," Murray said. "You're still working as hard as you can to get back. I don't know how to answer that. You're not skating every day, that may help you in some regard."
Murray allowed three goals on 26 shots and faced the occasional traffic jam in Game 1.
"I think he was good [dealing with] that," Penguins defenseman Ron Hainsey said. "I think the worst was when I fell on him. You always want to be clearing out the front of the net to make as easy as possible on him. Mine was probably the worst of it and I heard him (groan) when I fell on him."
That occurred midway through the first period when Nashville forwards Vernon Fiddler and Cody McLeod went hard to the net to try to get to a loose puck.
"The way that rush worked out, I was facing him and I didn't get my guy on my back where I needed him," Hainsey said. "I never got turned around. Then the worst of it was me falling on him because of the rebound lying there in the first period."
With Murray saying he's fine, of greater concern to the Penguins is the puzzle of what happened in Game 1, when they finished with 12 shots on goal and tried to contain Nashville's active defensemen.
"Yeah, a lot of similar stuff that we scouted, for sure," Murray said. "Point shots… their top four [defensemen] are huge for them. They're good at jumping into the rush, as well as off the cycle, in-zone type of play. That's a big part of their offense. They showed that yesterday, I thought."
The solutions, Murray said, will come in the attention to details, like giving those defensemen a little less time and space.
"I think try to stay in their face as much as possible, not allow them to get going," he said. "That would be the biggest thing. They're going to get their chances, but at the end of the day it's just about trying to hold them off, playing hard defensively. I think being hard in our net front is key too."