If Bryan Murray was trying to send a message through the media to his struggling defencemen, it fell on at least one set of deaf ears.
Asked for his reaction to the newspaper stories and audio clips of Murray saying both he and Patrick Wiercioch have to pick up their games, Jared Cowen pleaded ignorance.
"I don't hear it because I don't pay attention to that stuff, because it doesn't really matter," said Cowen, presumably referring to media reports and not his GM. "So I don't know, I'm sure he could say the same thing about a lot of guys.