Armstrong’s Hit Takes Out Eaves

“I read all the articles when Chris Neil hit (the Sabres') Chris Drury (in February) and it was the same type of hit,” he said. “It was a kid trying to make contact. (Eaves) had his head down a little bit. He got driven with the shoulder, that’s part of hockey.

“I feel bad with (Eaves) getting hurt the way he did and I know you’ll write extensive articles about how tough Armstrong was and how that shouldn’t be allowed,’’ Murray continued, ‘‘but we felt the same way when Neil hit Drury.

‘‘It was a fair hit, a hockey hit and we live with it accordingly.”