It’s Storr’s Turn in Goalie Rotation

The Kings’ goalie-go-round has come around to Jamie Storr again, and he gets on for a ride tonight against Calgary.

How long he stays on is up to him.

As usual.

None of this is a surprise.

“You’re always going to get a chance,” he said Friday. “You want to make sure you make the best use of it.”

He gets this chance because Steve Passmore has given up 10 goals in his last two games, both losses, though the six-goal game against Colorado wasn’t as bad as the four-goal game Thursday night against Florida.

The King coaching staff met with Storr on Friday morning.

“We need him to step in and get the job done,” Coach Andy Murray said. “We asked what can we do as a coaching staff to facilitate it.”

There really isn’t much. A goalie stands alone on the ice.

“It was like I was telling a forward the other day,” Storr said. “I said, ‘You make a mistake, and you’ve got a couple of other forwards to help you out. A defenseman makes a mistake, he has a partner to help him. I make a mistake, and it’s in the net and on the scoreboard.’ ”

The idea is not to make a mistake, a notion that has eluded four King goalies so far this season, including Storr.

He has drawn the lion’s share of the work, 28 of the Kings’ 41 games, and has an 11-11-5 record with a 2.95 goals-against average. His save percentage is .897, well below what it takes to get the job done.

Those numbers are influenced by a 6-0-2 run he engineered in November, but also by a 1-7-2 record he has put together since, some of that earned in games in which he relieved Stephane Fiset.

Storr has given up 33 goals in those 10 games, facing 250 shots.

“I’ve got to be consistent,” said Storr, who last played on Dec. 22, in relief of Fiset at Minnesota. “If I do my job, I’m making the regular saves and some good ones.”

It’s what he has told Murray a few times over the past couple of weeks, when he seemed to have become the forgotten man. “He told me in Dallas that he still wanted to be the No. 1 goalie,” Murray said.

That night Passmore beat the Stars, 5-2, and Storr appeared to be a long way from No. 1. But the goalie-go-round has come back to him.

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Center Steve Reinprecht, out Thursday night because of flu, was back Friday and figures to play tonight. That would move Eric Belanger back to the fourth line, though he had an assist and played well while centering the line that included Luc Robitaille and Glen Murray.

TONIGHT

vs. Calgary, 7

Fox Sports Net

* Site--Staples Center.

* Radio--KSPN (1110).

* Records--Kings 17-16-7-1, Flames 14-15-8-4.

* Record vs. Flames (1999-2000)--4-0.

* Update--The Flames, given up for dead at 6-13-5-4 after an 8-0 thumping by San Jose at Calgary on Dec. 4, have gone 8-2-3 since and are breathing down the Kings’ necks in the Western Conference race. Goalie Fred Brathwaite had won three games in a row, two of them by shutout, before Friday night’s tie at the Arrowhead Pond, and those victories include a 1-0 payback at San Jose on Wednesday night.

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