And montreal had a whole year to get him! And they wouldn't budge on lanky kirby
Confirmed Trade: [LAK/WPG] Pierre-Luc Dubois (signs 8 years, $8.5M AAV) for Gabe Vilardi, Alex Iafallo, Rasmus Kupari, 2024 2nd round pick
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Habs Halifax
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How are we salty about it lmao, we got a good return in a situation where we had almost no leverage and we don’t have to deal with your terrible trade proposals anymore
Win-win for everyone except Habs fans, who wasted their own time as well as everyone’s sanity for the better part of 2 years, trying to be trolls. Cheers!
Win-Win for everyone except Habs fans is being salty. You're spinning things with belittle narratives. Character is showing
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All that should have ended once it became apparent there were multiple teams in the mix and the PLD would come with an 8 year extension. That made the trouba and horvat trade returns moot. Completely different scenarios
At that point the lowball offers were uneeded and inflammatory. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if some were outright troll posts.
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original conversation was regarding Zib. Drai is a top 5 center in the league who signed a mid 1C deal out of his ELC. Right after signing it he became a 1C. Remember before his current deal he was played more on the Left wing than Center and this was one of the highest AAV for a LEft winger in the league at the time. Obvious steal now.
Yes you did aprox 2 years ago. quoted a snow fall chart and everything. I know you don't live in Calgary but you did make that argument.
Really? 65pt PLD who has such a horrible attitude? Wonder what torts has to say about him
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I think that top 9 could get past the Oilers sized hill this time around.
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Everyone is these says. It's just a competition to see who is offendedest
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Byfield is the embodiment of disappointment. 3 goals in 53 games last season. Weak, poor endurance, mediocre hands, bad shot, unimpressive hockey iq. I can go into great depth as to why I’m sure he will be a bust. Yakupov had more going for him than Byfield does.
Any honest Kings fan will tell you that we would prefer Byfield traded over Vilardi.
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You're not wrong. Kings still dont have a 1C after this and you bring in a guy with a career FO% of 45% to play top 6 center. The team has gaping holes on LD and esp in goal and you bring on another big contract creating inability to address the other 2 needs effectively next season.
Giving up Vilardi, Kupari and Iafallo will force Maclellan to play Kaliev, Grundstom and hopefully Turcotte in more prominent roles.
P.S. PLD he will play anyway.
Why exactly is the contract an issue for Winnipeg? They have 12M in cap space, which is plenty to sign and trade Dubois.
Habs Halifax
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There was many different things said from both sides that were not right. Don't act like every Jet fan was innocent and didn't escalate the situation. I know Habs fans had different things to say at different times.
What I dislike the most is fans twisting previous things and then grouping fan bases into one opinion later. It's stupid.
Lets calm down and re visit the multiple Habs futures offer at a later date. It's the only way to determine if our multiple futures packages were bad or good. Fair? We can also evaluate the guys you got in return later too.
Gaping holes.....looking at Mikey Andersson, Gavrikov...and Bjornfoot.....is my definition of gaping holes different?
AbsentMojo
F-ing get up and hunt! Cmon Todd!
You thought Durzi was OK at 2LD last season.. We have different ideas of what's a solid d corps
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While making an area of glaring weakness worse, and adding to what was already a strength.
Vilardi and Iafallo are both better even strength performers while also being solid on the PP. Iafallo is one of the Kings best penalty killers, which was just dreadful last year.
This is a reverse Visnovsky deal, sending heart and soul (with very good production) for a diet "star" player. It doesn't address any of the areas that allowed the Kings to be such an easy out over the past two seasons, which are a lack of strength along the walls and trenches and perseverance to hold leads.
Folks are getting excited about a paper roster but thats just cheap video game logic. This is the addition of one B-level player at the expense of two B-level players, a pick and a kid with potential.
Winnipeg is fleecing the Kings here.
Having not gone through the many pages in this thread, there's no way the Kings are sending all of Vilardi, Iafallo and Kupari to Winnipeg and only getting Dubois and his big contract without something significant going to the Kings as well, right?
As a fan of a divisional rival, this would be wonderful news but almost seems unrealistic like a Jets fan HF fanboy proposal.
As a fan of a divisional rival, this would be wonderful news but almost seems unrealistic like a Jets fan HF fanboy proposal.
I don't even like the Kings, but YIKES if that's the trade and extension amount.
On TSN, Dreger said Jets are also getting a 2nd round pick in addition to the three players already mentioned from the Kings.
He was ok at 2LD absolutely....we definitely have different ideas of the game, that's for sure....you are definitely more emotional about players.
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