I took a lot of crap for saying many times starting last year that TM needed to go. Those BringBackTheShieldJersey and soccersucks posts were mine. My first tag line was, “line combinations are irrelevant until Murray is gone.”

Arguing over and over again that the problem was more system/coaching than players. Yes, players were changed and improved. But the biggest difference Sutter has brought (and what has made the Kings so successful in the playoffs) is the attack-attack-attack on the forecheck, while with TM everything was about dropping back and being positionally secure that you won’t get beat on defense.And, yes, Kompon still needs to go. Take your ring and go, Jamie. We hopefully will win despite our horrendous power-play which you are in charge of.

Moving Brown to left wing was, to me, a no-brainer. He’s always been better over there and attacks the net more frequently and with more effectiveness. He sees the ice better.

Your point about Voynov and the Carter trade echoes what I’ve said about it, that what the deal so elegant from the Kings’ point of view was that Voynov was ready to step right on for Johnson. At worst, he would be a suitable patch, and at best he would be a real improvement. Since there was no place for him to play with Johnson around (and apparently, he thought about bolting to the KHL), the Kings really traded the 1st rounder + the difference between Johnson and Voynov, not Johnson in and of himself, for Carter. Advantage: Kings.