Speculation: Pierre-Luc Dubois Mega thread. (LAK frontrunner, but Montreal has circled back)

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Kudelski37

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Kings don't leak
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We somehow know that Vilardi and Iafallo are involved.
We think they are involved. It doesn't mean it is true. Hopefully, we will never find out who LA is offering. For cap reasons and opening space for younger players at least one of Moore, Iafallo, and Arvidsson have to be traded this summer.
 

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After the Chychrun drama, it’s safe to say the Fourth Period has a contact in LA’s front office who can’t keep his/her mouth shut.

There’s actually a professionalism to leaking. Like it’s ok to leak that the Kings are close to acquiring Dubois. It’s not ok to leak the names involved in current negotiations. Especially to those you can’t trust NOT to report them.
That's how I've been interpreting this as well. It's never been the Jets style to leak other teams player names. Desperate times call for desperate measures perhaps.

But like you said, seems so similar to Chychrun situation...
 
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They played their cards right. What good is someone who "wants to come home" if you have to pay heavily through assets and cap hit?

As far as I'm concerned opportunities like this will come up again.
Yeah, as much playful banter as there has been between fan bases... it's easy to see why Montreal would pass on this.

Dubois is not the type of dude who is willing to give up something in order to get what he wants... he was going to squeeze the Habs for every penny in UFA if it ever came to that.
 
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We think they are involved. It doesn't mean it is true. Hopefully, we will never find out who LA is offering. For cap reasons and opening space for younger players at least one of Moore, Iafallo, and Arvidsson have to be traded this summer.
I believe two of Moore, Iafallo, and Arvidsson needs to be traded this summer.
 

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Yeah, as much playful banter as there has been between fan bases... it's easy to see why Montreal would pass on this.

Dubois is not the type of dude who is willing to give up something in order to get what he wants... he was going to squeeze the Habs for every penny in UFA if it ever came to that.
As annoying as both fan bases have been to eachother I hope you guys know this is all in good fun.

Dvorak is still available if the LA deal falls through.
 
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Just perfectly sums up the past year really
 

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True, you don’t need PLD while you are rebuilding but if you sign him for an 8 year contract, you’ve secured your top 6 center positions for when you ARE competitive.
But he slows the rebuild by helping win more games, if he is any good, resulting in worse draft picks.
 

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True, you don’t need PLD while you are rebuilding but if you sign him for an 8 year contract, you’ve secured your top 6 center positions for when you ARE competitive.
Yeah we've been over this many times. Montreal really shouldn't even be talking about PLD right now. The only reason why the team and player are linked is his supposed "desire to be there" which doesn't mean much when he still wants a top dollar contract and Jets (justifiably) still want a market value trade package in return.

This is however a trade that a team in a position that LA is in should make.
 
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I think this is exactly why it's been reported Winnipeg insisted on ironing out trade compensation, then granting permission for extension talks. So the extention negotiation doesn't affect the trade return.
That doesn't make sense though. All LAK can do is just scrap the trade if PLD is asking for too much.
 

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Kings don't leak
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We somehow know that Vilardi and Iafallo are involved.
Yeah it certainly seems like it's the Jets who have an interest in those names being out there and not LA. Probably letting the insiders do their dirty work? I don't know what to think
 
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