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Kings coach wants less trash talking

It’s not often that a coach tells one of his players to back off on the on-ice trash talking, but that’s exactly what Kings coach Terry Murray is telling Ryan Clune to do. It seems that Clune may have gone too far with his “yapping”, as he went after Roberto Luongo in the pre-game warmups before game 2.

From Ben Kuzma of the The Province:

“He’s got to rein that part in during the warm-ups,” Kings coach Terry Murray said Monday. “You’re out there to get prepared for the game. You’re not out there to cruise the red line and be jabbing each other with verbal shots or throwing pucks at each other.

“The emotional part is his game but it has to be controlled. If he doesn’t show it through physical play or chirping a bit, what is he going to do for me?

Clune wouldn’t devulge exactly what was said to Luongo and claims he didn’t hear any rebuttal.

There also seems to be some hatred building between Alex Burrows and Drew Doughty, which isn’t surprising considering the Doughty is on the ice for 90% of the time Burrows is.

It’s understandable what Burrows is trying to do, getting under the head of a 20-year old defenseman in his first Olympics, but so far Doughty has the upper hand in the matchup. Perhaps Burrows should just focus on actually, you know...scoring an stuff.