In terms of “shot mentality,’’ Terry Murray got what he wanted last night, as the Kings recorded a season-high 39 shots on goal. Of course, it only led to two goals, so the mission was not accomplished, and Murray pointed to one of his other favorite terms — net presence — to describe what the Kings could have done better last night. Entering tonight’s game, the Kings rank 19th in the NHL with an average of 28.5 shots on goal per game.
MURRAY: “We’ve been talking about this over the last couple years, about the importance of getting pucks to the net. I liked the attitude. I thought we could have been better at net presence, though. There were not enough screens, not enough traffic at the net to take advantage of those shots going to the net. The fact of the matter, of more pucks to the net, is a real good thing, and we’ll push the other part.’’
Someone else brought this up the other night, excuses excuses. We had the shots, but not the “net presence”. Figures. When will we get rid of this “excuse” for an offensive system?
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How about we change it to a “goal mentality”.
It is all in what you call it haha.
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CB14 Reply:
October 30th, 2011 at 2:54 pm
@Andrew: the second coming, That would make more sense.
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Andrew: the second coming Reply:
October 30th, 2011 at 2:55 pm
@CB14, Then it is deffently out of question.
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CB14 Reply:
October 30th, 2011 at 3:03 pm
@Andrew: the second coming,
Maybe we can stop shooting from the point so often! We have the skill set to make good plays!
Anyone else notice, seems when were around the circle with an opportunity, we shoot it wide.
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kingszzz Reply:
October 30th, 2011 at 3:25 pm
@KingsGuy, yes, yes I do notice.
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jess Reply:
October 30th, 2011 at 3:43 pm
@KingsGuy,
This is why all our fellow KF’s are so excited about Richards, he is making those creative plays from off angles to the net and through the middle
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Terry Murray costume = Dump. Kompon costume = Chase
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CB14 Reply:
October 30th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
@kingszzz, Darn, I was wrong. I figured TM was going as “shot”, and JK was going as “mentality”.
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Andrew: the second coming Reply:
October 30th, 2011 at 3:45 pm
@kingszzz, Twidelld and Twidalldumb.
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Deke'r Reply:
October 30th, 2011 at 3:58 pm
@Andrew: the second coming, ….that about says it all…..
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Andrew: the second coming Reply:
October 30th, 2011 at 4:03 pm
@Deke’r, Sad but true. Painfully true.
Anyone ever hear TM say that he just might have made a wrong decision about anything? If so, I sure don’t remember it.
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Michael J. Reply:
October 30th, 2011 at 3:32 pm
@taz42,
He must be related to my mother-in-law.
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LAPD Line Reply:
October 30th, 2011 at 4:27 pm
@taz42, You will also never hear him criticize any of his coaching staff. Players are called out all the time, often by name, but it’s never a coaching problem.
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Kingsfanone Reply:
October 30th, 2011 at 4:38 pm
@taz42,
He “apologized” for going off on the fans for booing his team off the ice and he criticised the fans for doing it. Last season. Does that count?
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taz42 Reply:
October 30th, 2011 at 4:40 pm
@Kingsfanone,
Uh thanks but, that isn’t exactly what I had in mind
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“step right up, step right up and take your best shot at the floating murray ducks -hit three in a row and take home this fine stuffed kopi bear”
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Seems to me we didn’t have enough Voynov presence.
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Yes very important but Quality over Quantity
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Theyve been talking about this shot mentality the last couple years?? I think if the coach is a few years into his message and still not getting it through to the players…something is wrong there.
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neil Reply:
October 30th, 2011 at 4:07 pm
@Cruiznblue, agree…Same message..3 years(TM own words)now….either change the system or teach it a different way….
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Kingsfanone Reply:
October 30th, 2011 at 4:41 pm
@neil,
Kinda like hearing about improving 5 on 5 scoring from TM for 3 years now?
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Here’s what i took from last night game.
JQ is amazing! He saved our butts many times on point blank shots and the goals that he did give up weren’t his fault.
Goal #1 all on Greene! he had a lot of time and the whole left side to skate the puck with instead he forced a bad pass into traffic.
Goal # 2 JW got beat not back checking
Goal # 3 bad bounce off JJ stick.
I think DL needs to address our weak spot on this team LW.
With Gagne hurt it really show how weak we are on LW.
I’m done with Penner!!!! NO heart, he can’t go a full shift with his line mates. poor and weak passing and weak shot attempts. Just terrible!!!
He made the top line look terrible after it had been great all year!
The 2nd line played much better hopefully Parse can fit in with Richards/DB
Lastly, Greene is our weakest Dman. Recently making bad decessions with the puck, and is taking bad penalty’s along with chasing the puck too much.
Let’s bounce back and get 2pts tonight boy’s
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kingszzz Reply:
October 30th, 2011 at 3:49 pm
@ta, Penner is stoned. He looks up at the scoreboard funnies between shifts and grins.
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Waves In Air, overhere, thanks for the good info. I guess I was gone playing golf that day and didn’t check the blog after I got back. I guess if they do it I’ll have to subscribe to my computer so I can watch um. Thanks again Waves.
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I bet Hammond does a lot of cut and paste to save time quoteing TM. Probably got several macro’s set up on the functions keys
F1 = “shot mentality”
F2 = “net presence”
F3 = “getting pucks to the net”
F4 = “will be filling in on Kopitar’s LW”
F5 = “me and Penner had a chat”
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Andrew: the second coming Reply:
October 30th, 2011 at 3:58 pm
@KC23, Penner and I, Rich has good grammar skills.
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Hit the net. Say it. Hit. The. Net.
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