“The Flyers ... it always seemed to me anyway, put good players in their minor-league system. Many years I go back with watching the Phantoms when I was coaching, or the assistant coach of the Flyers, and they were always a very competitive team with a lot of prospects,” Murray said.

“It’s up to the coaching from there to do their job, too. You’ve got to take these kids and bring them together to a team as quickly as possible, and help them get to the National Hockey League as players. That’s the thing I feel I can do a good job with. I feel I build good teams and get the right attitude and right chemistry together, and let them go play the game.”

Murray said he anticipates that Riley Cote and Kjell Samuelsson will return as his assistant coaches.

Murray’s familiarity with Glens Falls is limited.

Terry Murray played at the Civic Center as a member of the Maine Mariners in 1979. His brother, Bryan, was the Detroit Red Wings General Manager in the early ’90s.

Moving from one of the largest markets in the NHL to the smallest in the AHL doesn’t bother Murray, he said.