As a follow-up to Terry Murray’s talk of needing to generate more offensive chances, I asked him how that related to the power play. The Kings have a dreadful 13.6-percent conversion rate on the power play, fifth-worst in the NHL, and they are 1 for 19 on the power play over their last three games. Here’s what Murray said about the need to generate more power-play chances…
MURRAY: “There was a study that was done quite a few years ago about the percentage of goals scored — out of about 2,000 goals on the power play — and the number is probably in the mid-70s (percentage) in terms of where the original shot came from. And that is from the blue line. The bottom line is, it’s a `shot’ mentality, with traffic and looking for good things off of that. It disorganizes everything, whenever you’re getting pucks to the net. That might be a part of the inexperience, in terms of understanding that concept totally, but we will keep pushing that idea. We have some veterans on the team who do understand it and I hope it quickly rubs off on the young guys.”
