It’s urgent, so urgent

In the past five days, the Kings’ magic number for making the playoffs has fallen from 12 to 8, but that’s because Calgary lost twice, not because the Kings won. Had the Kings won their last two games, the magic number right now would be 4. The Kings could actually move into fifth place in the West tonight, if they win and Nashville loses to Florida in regulation, but the Kings are currently in seventh place, only one point ahead of eighth-place Colorado. “Urgency” has been the buzz word around the Kings for the past few days, and this morning Terry Murray was asked if there was a sense of urgency around his team…

MURRAY: “There’s definitely not only a sense of that, but there’s conversation about it. We don’t want to get into this `backing in’ to the playoffs. We want to be playing a good game and earn the right to be in there, and ready to go in the first round. That’s something that has to get established right now, and this is a good place to get it going. To me, when I go back to the Dallas game, I liked our first period and the way we came out and played and did the right things. We did a great job on the forecheck, and that’s the attitude that we need to get back, and start this game the right way tonight.”

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