Work Cut Out for the Kings : Hockey: Team has new boss to answer to, and he wants employees to wear hard hats.

Andy Murray, who never met a saying, motto, slogan or mantra he didn’t like, draws the line at one used by every incoming leader since Joshua fought the battle of Jericho:

“All jobs are open.”

As bad as the Kings were last season, and at 32-45-5 they were bad enough to get Larry Robinson fired and Murray hired as coach, some jobs already will be filled when training camp begins with physical examinations today and skating Sunday at Iceoplex in North Hills.

Rob Blake is still the captain and best defenseman. Luc Robitaille is still at left wing, this season on a top line with Jozef Stumpel and newcomer Ziggy Palffy. Donald Audette is going to be sniping. Glen Murray is going to be on the second line with him and center Bryan Smolinski, and Sean O’Donnell is still going to be punishing on defense, probably paired with Aki Berg, back from exile in Finland.

Most of the faces will be familiar.

“We have a pretty good idea who’s going to make the team and you do too,” Murray said Friday. “There are some guys who are going to have to play their way onto the team, and some guys who are going to have to play their way off.”

That still allows room for training camp surprises.

“This is a club that can use some surprises,” Murray said.

Jason Blake could make the team as the fourth-line center. David MacIsaac could become a King defenseman.

Jere Karalahti could arrive at camp sooner than later.

When camp begins Sunday, Karalahti will be in Helsinki, victim of a paperwork snafu, of the Labor Day weekend and of a past he has worked hard to overcome.

“There was a miscommunication,” said Dave Taylor, the Kings’ senior vice president and general manager. “He brought the wrong paperwork to the U.S. consul in Helsinki. He didn’t have a ‘waiver of excludability.’ ”

That waiver, according to Taylor, will allow Karalahti, a 24-year-old defenseman who played with Finland’s national team the last two years, into the U.S., even though he has a criminal record. He was arrested for trying to bring heroin into Finland two years ago.

“He spent nine months in rehabilitation,” Taylor said. “I feel he deserves a chance.”

Murray added that Karalahti’s play with the national team included two years of drug testing, and that he might have been the best defenseman in Europe last season.

Before camp, the Kings will be told their goal as a team will be to be “tough to play against.” It’s a proposal made by Robitaille in his interview with the new coach.

It was an elusive goal last season.

To that end, some changes in training camp regimen will be made. For one, there will be no scrimmages during the first three days.

“We want to put our stamp on this team,” Murray said. “We want them to learn that this is the way we’re going to work.”