Tuesday morning practice

The Kings had their first training-camp scrimmage this morning and the “white” team, with Jonathan Quick and Martin Jones in goal, got a 3-0 victory over the “black” team, with Jonathan Bernier and Jeff Zatkoff in goal. Brayden Schenn on a rebound from close range on the first goal. Anze Kopitar beat Zatkoff on a penalty shot with a nice backhand, five hold. Oscar Moller scored on a top-shelf backhand that probably would have gone to a video review in the regular season…

Seeing a scrimmage brought to light the emphasis Terry Murray has put on improving offense this season. It’s only one early-camp scrimmage, of course, but already I saw a lot more of players carrying to puck over the blue line and heading for the net, rather than some of the dump/chip/chase stuff we might have seen in the past. Andrei Loktionov made a couple nice defensive plays and, nor surprisingly, Rich Clune was a disruptive force.

The scrimmage players are going through a conditioning skate now, and a third group of players will skate this afternoon before the travel roster leaves for Denver late this afternoon.

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