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Article: For Murray, First Fundamental Is Work Ethic
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- The Washington Post
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- November 10, 1987
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Bryan Murray's home here simulates his summer cottage in a kind
of Canadian Lake Wobegon. Near Annapolis, the Washington Capitals'
coach owns a home in the woods. It has a large deck out back and the
quiet of night. He lives with his wife, Geri, and two daughters. A
black Labrador retriever named Lucy and three cats have free rein.
If Murray thinks hard enough, he can imagine himself back on his
little lake 15 miles outside his native Shawville, Quebec, and about
50 miles northwest of Ottawa.
But Murray's thoughts are solely on the present: recharging the
Capitals' attack, finding a left wing, keeping pace in the Patrick
Division, worrying about tonight's game in Uniondale, N.Y., against ...