Pierre Luc Dubois explains for his poor performance in L.A.

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I’m about the furthest thing from a Dubois fan but this thread will be hilarious when he immediately bounces back to 60 points when he gets 18+ minutes/game + PP1 time.
If 60 points is all he gets getting used in all favourable conditions to produce, it's honestly not that impressive and your team is likely not going very far...
 

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I remember the hordes among my fellow Habs fans who wanted PLD in the weeks before he was traded to LA. For the life of me, I couldn't understand why they so ardently wanted him. We had just gone through the Drouin experiment and Dubois's reputation was already tarnished somewhat.

It's kinda funny this has happened twice in recent memory with a 'star' Quebec player, and both times, Bergevin was close to that action. I hope for Kings fans he won't be the one eventually replacing Blake.

If he does end-up GM though, I'll be watching his media appearances, as they are a treasure trove of meme opportunities. The Bergevin years were quite awful, but at least we laughed a lot.

Bergevin tried to get him off Columbus but Hughes is the one who tried to get him off Winnipeg.
 

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In over 60 years of hockey, I despised PLDonkey as a player the most and it is rooted in two things.

The fake "desire to play for the Habs", then the fake "it is a dream to play for LA".

And...reminds me of a selfish brat who talks the game but is only out for himself...in a team sport.

I'm just glad we missed that bullet.
 

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Not really a risk when the franchise's only reason for existing at this point - and I don't mean that in a dismissive sense but simply that this is their entire purpose and collective aim, the GM's mandate - is to ensure that Ovi breaks the league goal-scoring record. Bringing in talent like Dubois on the cheap to help them achieve a modicum of success in the regular season, delaying a complete tear-down rebuild, is worth it as one of the best methods to realize that aim.
Bringing in Dubois will at best be a non factor and at worst actively hinder Ovi’s goal record, which he is a virtual lock to get anyway as long as he stays healthy. Any justification of this trade seems to include the underlying assumption that underneath all of his many negatives and baggage, PLD is at heart an above average to borderline star hockey player. He is not.

The Caps could’ve and should’ve just bought out Kuemper and signed any generic free agent C for ~$4m and they would’ve ended up with a better player and been on the hook for less money and for less years than they are now.
 

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Bizarre that the Caps took on one of the worst contracts in the league. I hope PLD does great in Washington, but odds are he will be who he has always been. Such a waste of raw talent and size.
 

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I’m about the furthest thing from a Dubois fan but this thread will be hilarious when he immediately bounces back to 60 points when he gets 18+ minutes/game + PP1 time.
He could score 100 points and still get shit on at this point because he’s so hated. But yeah, 30 goal season incoming for Dubois as a 1C. Lol
 

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The thing about this clown, if someone thinks it’s okay to really not give a f*** that much while getting paid that much money, like realistically what kind of turnaround is even logical?
 

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His name is Pierre-Luc Dubois, not all of these other names.

Leave Pierre alone. Hockey is the hardest sport in the world.
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Sorry, couldn't just let this one pass.
 
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Me me me me me, Dubois loves to talk about himself and only himself. It's always about him. His needs will always come first before his team.


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So...aspergers, in a nut shell?
 

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Bizarre that the Caps took on one of the worst contracts in the league.
Remember that the Caps gave away Kuemper for him, and Darcy is on one of the worst contracts in the league himself and basically wasn't helping Caps at all (Pierre is at least talented).
 

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