Glass is half-full
One of the keys for keeping the confidence of his young team is a positive approach, Terry Murray says. He said he's the same way with a veteran team, too. It seems to be working with the Kings. Much of that confidence after losses is built during the post-game analysis.
``We take the positive side of things here, with the young guys,'' Murray said. ``We're showing and re-capping our game in meetings the next day, trying to focus in on system play on all the good things we did, the number of shots, for and against, we're trying to highlight a lot of information for them so they can come away and understand we're close and here maybe is the difference, a couple of situations. The result will be there. I think that's important for a young team, to be able to understand that. That it's very close on a given night.''

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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