Murray Says Move With Goalies Led to Team’s Slide

It’s a scar now, a lingering blemish on the Kings’ season and on their coach’s soul, which he revealed Thursday morning.

“One thing I did wrong,” Andy Murray said, “was to play two injured goalies in three games.”

The games were a 7-1 loss at New Jersey on Dec. 14, an 8-3 loss to the New York Rangers the next night, and an 8-4 hammering by Chicago on Dec. 18.

“I made a mistake in New Jersey playing Jamie Storr with a concussion,” Murray said. “We didn’t know he had a concussion. . . . He had a headache, but doctors had cleared him.

“Stephane Fiset was just coming back off an injury [to his stick hand], and in New York, we sent [backup goalie] Marcel Cousineau back to Long Beach.”

Storr gave up three goals in the first period against New Jersey and was replaced by Fiset. The next night, Storr started again and the Rangers scored six goals off him before Fiset took over.

Fiset was beaten by Chicago as a starter.

The losses were the first in a 3-10-1-1 string that took the Kings from near the top of the NHL standings to the middle of the Western Conference, where they cling to a playoff spot.