The consistency issue
When I asked Terry Murray, after the Colorado loss, if inconsistency can be attributed to having a young roster, he fairly quickly dismissed the theory. So today, after a Nashville game in which the Kings seemed to be very different in the final 30 minutes than they were in the first 30 minutes, I asked Murray, more generally, about how inconsistency might be overcome.
MURRAY: ``I think that's that process we talked about in August, and it is a process. We're bringing together a group of guys that we're trying to make a team out of. We're trying to become a team. We're showing great team play at times, in certain games and in parts of the games we've played. In the St. Louis game, I thought we showed a great team game. That's the consistent level that you strive for, for every game. So it is a process and we've made lots of steps in the right direction.''

J.P. Hoornstra writes about NHL and IHL hockey for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group. He welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey.
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Jill Painter joined the Daily News in 2000 and during the last eight years she's covered the Dodgers, Cal State Northridge, UCLA, Kings, golf and everything in between. Even though she's from Colorado, she still freezes in the Staples Center press box but always manages to thaw her fingers in time to make deadline. E-mail Jill at 

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