Yeah, Minny has some nice forwards and they score by committee. Glad we reached an agreement.
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Yea, but his point was that so do 26 other teams in the league (LA included).

Sutter was the right choice for head coach when he was hired. He was very good at using veteran talent to implement his defense-first system, and it worked exceptionally from 2012-2014. After that, we started to lose some players to free agency, retirement, and drug abuse, and then things started to fall apart.

Sutter was not very good at developing talented youngsters, which was his downfall. As more younger players continued to replace departing players, they were unable to implement his system as effectively, and it was no longer as successful.

The Kings were by no means a bad team over the past 3 years, they just weren't as good as they had been from 2012-2014. The available personnel required a modification to the system, and Sutter apparently wasn't equipped to do that. He lost the total system buy-in from the players, and something had to change. So here we are.

The jury is still out on whether the new system will be effective or not. We're only 2 dozen games into the Stevens' era, and while no one can argue with the W/L record, a lot of the underlying numbers are concerning. If they can keep it up for an entire season and more, then we'll know.
- tkecanuck341

Forget Sutter. We would have been better off hiring Tila Tequila:

Yea, but his point was that so do 26 other teams in the league (LA included).
- tkecanuck341

Not really. We have Kopitar, Gaborik, Toffoli and Carter. We have some guys.

Not really. We have Kopitar, Gaborik, Toffoli and Carter. We have some guys.
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While I agree that Kopitar is better than any forward on Minnesota (as well as 28 other teams in the league), I don't agree that the other three guys you list are better than every forward on Minnesota.

Your home team bias is showing.

Forget Sutter. We would have been better off hiring Tila Tequila:
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Now you're just being dumb. It's not like Sutter coached the Kings to 2 Stanley Cups and 3 Conference Finals or anything.