After last night’s 1-0 overtime loss, the Kings’ record in one-goal games fell to 1-6. I wanted to get Terry Murray’s thoughts on this, keeping in mind that he said, from the beginning, that the team’s youth would not be used as an excuse this season. So Murray took it in a different direction and talked about offensive chances.

The Kings rank 29th in the NHL in shots per game, with an average of 26.1. On the flip side, they rank No. 2 in fewest shots on goals against, with an average of 24.8. Murray’s argument holds less water on a night such as Tuesday, when the Kings outshot the Ducks 35-27, but here are his general thoughts about needing to generate more offense…

MURRAY: “I think our number of shots on goal, when you look at the overall picture, is below acceptability, almost. I put a number up on the board a couple games ago, just to refer to it in a team meeting. Detroit’s total number of shots on goal averaged out to, I forget the exact number right now but it was well above 40, and our total number of shots, on average, was about 23.5. So I was just trying to draw a comparison there, about the importance of getting pucks to the net, It was a focus of the practice today, in all the drills we did, to bring the puck there with traffic, looking for second and third opportunities. That’s where the scoring is at these days. If you are going to be able to do that on a consistent basis, with that kind of an attitude, then good plays and the highlight-reel plays will open up for you. That will be a part of the whole picture. On a consistent basis, we need to do the little things and the hard things every day.”