Confirmed Trade: [WSH/LAK] Pierre-Luc Dubois for Darcy Kuemper (no salary retained)

[Mac Attack]

Washington can still trade PLD at 50% off for picks

7 year contract says that is not about to happen

 

[Boonk]

How Rob Blake is still employed is beyond me. All of these assets gone:
Vilardi
Iafallo
Kupari
Faber
Durzi

All to fit Fiala and one shit season of PLD under the cap and onto the roster. Missing a few details im sure. Crazy.

 

[Habs Halifax]

Not going to defend pld because he has sucked but why does it matter to wash? At all? 8.5 mill during the dark times. At least the old goalie that’s lost it is gone. Carlson, ovi, oshie coming off the books shortly. The cap hit is a nothing thing. Be interesting to see if I can hate this guy more then mantha tho.

Kings are going to look very bad if Dubois plays #1C (20 min/game) and puts up 80 pts with Ovi.

On the other hand, Caps might look bad if Dubois continues his up/down play and doesn't show up game/game.

Which one would you bet on? I can see more of a rollercoaster ride

 

[Prairie Habs]

Big risk for Washington, dont they play a defense first style similar to the Kings, not sure how well Dubois will do there.
Also how does Blake still have a job after this debacle.

Possibly controversial opinion. All bad teams should play all offense to give their fans something to enjoy and pump up their forwards trade value, rather than playing defensively to try and finish 21st instead of 24th.

 

[tny760]

He will be better than what he was on LA because he's going to play 20 min's a game instead of 15.

Why is there not much talk about how the Kings managed usage with him? They traded for a center when their center depth was good, signed him to $8.5M but then played him 15 min a game in a 3C role. Just weird. And no, don't try to say he deserved it. That's not how you manage someone you just gave a 8x $8.5M contract and has a history of fading when he don't play with talent.

Not trying to defend Dubois the full amount. He deserves some heat yes. But man, this popular bandwagon hate party towards Dubois was out of control when it was also mixed in with ignorance. Not much thought process into the context

usage doesn't matter when you play as bad of hockey as he did man. like, i watched every game. he's AWFUL. floater of the highest degree, not even a flash of skill

 

[Hivemind]

Washington can still trade PLD at 50% off for picks

Not before the new NHL year (July 1), as all three of their retention slots are currently occupied. This takes a trade at the draft off the table. Even more relevant is the fact he has 7 years remaining, and there's no way Washington is going to eat 7 years of dead cap hit.

 

[ScoreZeGoals]

This is a really good move by Blake, but it's a cherry on top of a shit sundae that he made. It's a joke that Blake was allowed to make this move in the first place, he should have been fired

 

[Caps8112]

Kings are going to look very bad if Dubois plays #1C (20 min/game) and puts up 80 pts with Ovi.

On the other hand, Caps might look bad if Dubois continues his up/down play and doesn't show up game/game.

Which one would you bet on? I can see more of a rollercoaster ride

I agree about pld more then likely sucking as he is what he is but the caps are going into the sucking the next 7 seasons. Whether this guy becomes the man or continues his ways , he won’t be relevant to the next time the caps are any type of contender. At least he’s under 30

 

[TheNumber4]

So many thoughts

Do they have a Nobu Malibu in Washington? How can Prefers Lifestyle Dubious possibly be happy there?

Will Pierre Luc Dubious’s new LA nickname “PL” still be in effect in Washington? Caps fans will need that acronym to eventually shit on him.

Congrats to LA. That fanbase has earned this trade.

LOL @ PL. Premadonna Punk keeps trying to find a City suitable for him to play hockey in, but the lifestyle cities don’t even want him.

Will miss him in the Pacific division. And as a player the Oilers could have clowned on for years to come.

Kuemper sucks. But PLD is a franchise killing black cloud that has to go.

Good luck to Washington in trying to save his lazy ass.

 

[Curufinwe]

Possibly controversial opinion. All bad teams should play all offense to give their fans something to enjoy and pump up their forwards trade value, rather than playing defensively to try and finish 21st instead of 24th.

Hah, you’re describing the Flyers who finished 21st but were 27th in goals for and 32nd in PP%.

 

[Zbynek]

Completely insane that LA got out of that contract with no retention.

 

[Jared Dunn]

Congrats LA, maybe there is a god after all...

 

[Diamonddog01]

LA made out like absolute bandits here. Well done.

 

[wintersej]

Love it for both teams.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Why the hell is Washington taking that risk?

they paid for capfriendly and never checked his contract lol

 

[GRob83]

Backstrom is done, Oshie is taking the year off. They must be planning on playing McMichael and Lapierre on the wing.

McMichael - Strome - Milano
Lapierre - Dubois - Wilson
Ovechkin - Protas - Miroshnichenko
Malenstyn - Dowd - Sutter?

 

[RedRocking]

 

[Arthur Morgan]

How long until PLD asks for a trade out of DC? A year?

prob already has, too bad no one wants him now lol.

 

[zizbuka]

What's the countdown on PLD moping to another trade?

 

[LeftKinger]

I’ve never disliked a player more. I had no hope for him after this season. I didn’t see anything all year, not even a glimpse, to tell me he was going to turn this thing around during the rest of his deal. Glad he’s gone, but also feel for Caps fans.

 

[CDJ]

2 terrible general managers walk into a bar…

 

[SlimCharles]

I am so happy I don't have to watch Dubois anymore. Thank ****

 

[Dog]

What's the countdown on PLD moping to another trade?

Crapitals trade Dubois to Habs for Dvorak!

 

[Jared Dunn]

Jake Allen might make some sense now. I imagine NJ is very open to moving him now with Markstrom in the fold.

That would be a very shady thing for the GM to do after it took convincing to get him to waive there in the first place. I think they fully intend to roll with them as a tandem

 

[RustyCat]

Washington management acquisition masterclass on how to piss off every fan base, including their own, in just one week. Impressive.