I thought this was a troll until I saw it was from the Kings. I can’t believe it but I’m still too pissed it ever happened to get overly excited about this. Glad he’s gone though, absolutely no hope with that guy on this team.
Confirmed with Link: PLD TRADED TO WASHINGTON for Darcy Kuemper
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Lt Dan
F*** your ice cream!
KingsFan7824
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No, you shouldn't. That's not the trade that was made then, and not the trade that was made today. It's a non-existent trade. Two separate trades, which aren't connected. If it was a 3 way trade on the day of, yes, they can be connected. But it wasn't, so you can't. Or you can, but you shouldn't.
Do you know of any goalie back then that would've been had for that combo? Do you know of any actually good goalie that you could get today for a 0g Kupari, 30 year old 11g Iafallo, and yet again injured Vilardi?
Lt Dan
F*** your ice cream!
SaltyElkHunter
I …. am…. The LA Kings!
I like:
Moore-Kopitar-Kempe
Fiala-Byfield-Reinhart
Stephenson-Danault-Lafreriere
Turcotte-Thomas-(BIG NASTY FAST)
Anderson-Doughty
Gavrikov-Clarke
Dillon-Spence
Englund
Kuemper
Portillo/Rittich
SlimCharles
Kings & Sabres
I was so worried this absolute bum of a hockey player was going to be infesting this team for years to come. Obviously I wish it never happened and we still had Vilardi, but props to Blake for finding a solution to a huge mistake he made. I don't want to say I'm excited for the Kings, but I'm no longer in the darkest deepest depths of darkness now that asshole is gone.
He may not actually want to get rid of kailyev ?
dabeechman
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ScoreZeGoals
Boooorrrrriiiinnnnng
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Blake better not use this cap space to re-sign Matt Roy
Lt Dan
F*** your ice cream!
Was just about to comment. This means he’ll try to resign Roy and trade Spence because he’s an idiot
This is the type of move a new GM makes. Not one who made the mistake and was allowed to keep their job. The fact that Blake made this move proves that he should’ve been canned.
Choralone
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The team is still in Hell, but at least they're not in the constantly-getting-eaten-and-pooped-out-by-the-Devil-in-the-frozen-9th-Circle of Hell.
That contract alone was a team backbreaker not to mention the cancer that went with it
tny760
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maybe it's a new introspective blake that's going to right all his wrongs and bless kaliyev with top line minutes
HA!
Sol
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I think it’s going to happen. Were gonna pay top dollar for this bum unfortunately
johnjm22
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Kuemper Buyout Next offseason
2025-26 $3,458,333
2026-27 $4,208,333
2027-28 $708,333
2028-29 $708,333
2025-26 $3,458,333
2026-27 $4,208,333
2027-28 $708,333
2028-29 $708,333
I like Roy, but he's an no. 4 defensemen at best. He's going to want around 6 mill a year. Just let Clarke take his spot.
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Crazy, last thing I expected to see today. PLD has negative f***ing value so I'll take it, even tho it hurts to give up that many assets for such a shit player. The guy is an absolute cancer and black hole, so getting him away from this team is a big win.
Better than a buyout as well cuz at least we get a goalie.
Better than a buyout as well cuz at least we get a goalie.
Raccoon Jesus
Draft em but don't play em
Oh it's better than that
So the trade tree becomes
Outgoing
Vilardi
Iafallo
Kupari
MTL 2nd
Durzi
Walker
Grans
Petersen
LA 2nd
PLD
Incoming
2 million+ of Provorov's salary
Hayden Hodgson
Kevin Connauton
AND Kuemper the goalie you waived to start the cycle above
#masterclass
Oh you betcha, he's signing Roy and trading Spence
bland
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And Durzi plus the Columbus debacle for the cap...
Which will promptly be wasted on Mantha, re-signing Roy, then trading Spence, Kaliyev and the first for Chychrun.
Or something equally absurd. It's one thing to get excited about the short term news, but if you step back and widen your eyes you can see that this is just another turn on the same express lane to nowhere.
dabeechman
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I thought Keumper played decent when he was here. 2nd half Talbot was fkn awful.
KingsOfCali25
Start up the Bandwagon!
It's a win to move PLD without retention or adding picks and prospects. Also, about $3m in cap space and losing 4 years off the contract. It's an overall lose because what LA had to move to get PLD and the cap space to sign him and Gavrikov, but I'll take it for now.
The next issue is what Blake does with the cap space and to fill the roster. It could turn out even worse. He could sign Roy to block Spence or Clarke or go after a crazy expensive winger
The next issue is what Blake does with the cap space and to fill the roster. It could turn out even worse. He could sign Roy to block Spence or Clarke or go after a crazy expensive winger
tny760
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i was thinking about that too, didn't do the math but kuemper's contract is basically a wash with a 1/3 PLD buyout, but definitely saves dollars over a 2/3 and is definitely an LTIRetire candidate? plus a theoretical kuemper buyout which is definitely real dollars saved
