Skinner and Murashov watched that game from the media level. Skinner, who joined the team in the middle of December, enjoyed getting to know Murashov for the first time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn’t know he was only 22,\u201d Skinner said. \u201cWe got to talking, talked a little bit about hockey, talked about some family, and just seems like a stand-up guy. I was really happy to get on ice with him. I was super excited for that. So, yeah, my first impression is only good things.\u201d<\/p>\n
After getting his first five games of NHL experience back in November, including a shutout during the Global Series in Sweden, Murashov has grown his game this season with WBS.<\/p>\n
He has posted a 22-8-3 record along with a 2.13 goals-against average, a .922 save percentage and three shutouts. Murashov gave a lot of credit to the coaches and staff for where his game is at right now.<\/p>\n
In terms of how prepared Murashov feels for this call-up compared to the one earlier in the year, he said, \u201cI would say that I just know my game more. We have a really good process down in Wilkes, especially with (Kain Tisi), our goalie coach, whom I\u2019m really grateful (for). Definitely, I gained more experience, and it would help me along the way, not right now, but throughout my career.\u201d<\/p>\n
With a three-day break between games, it will be a day-by-day process to see how things shake up for the team in net before Thursday\u2019s matchup in New Jersey.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll we’re really focused on right now is me going to see the guys after this and talking about how I felt, and they’re going to check my eye, make sure everything’s all good, and I’m very much hoping that I get to (play that game,\u201d Skinner said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skinner and Murashov watched that game from the media level. Skinner, who joined the team in the middle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[5,4,118,1469,100,5216],"class_list":{"0":"post-546818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-penguins","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","13":"tag-pittsburghpenguins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116367450741206682","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}