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

[NYR94]

The respected boards of PLD's former teams: View attachment 884642

why do they all look like Mathieu Schneider?

 

[WolfgangPuck]

Blake must gone through several emotions from excitement at overpaying Dubois to great disappointment and Buyers remorse to good riddance and relief

 

[KingsHockey24]

Dustin Penner is a better skater than Dubois and that's not an exaggeration.

 

[Nasti]

Wait, I thought it was so they had room to play Spence, not for the extra cap space?

They traded Durzi a day or two before the PLD trade. It was more about clearing space and getting another asset to spend.

 

[DelZottoHitTheNetJK]

Props to Blake for having the balls to make this move and effectively full blown admit you f***ed up, not that it's any consolation to that atrocious trade with WPG

 

[CheldishGamibno]

Props to Blake for having the balls to make this move and effectively full blown admit you f***ed up, not that it's any consolation to that atrocious trade with WPG

Making big moves without any plans ahead is very Bergevinesque

 

[Guitpik]

Just in case anyone needed evidence of just how big a knucklehead Rob Blake is, effectively this moron traded Vilardi, Iafalo, Kupari, Dubois and this year’s King’s second round pick for Darcy Kuemper.

For those who say that goalies don’t have that kind of return value, Blake says “Hold my beer…”

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Something something sunk cost fallacy…

 

[DelZottoHitTheNetJK]

Making big moves without any plans ahead is very Bergevinesque

What's funny about that is I could understand it if it were small market teams that need butts in seats.

There's 0 excuse to bring a big name into MTL or LAK just to generate hype, so none of this really makes sense other than Blake obviously thought they would be elite down the middle with PLD. I think his year would have been forgiven if he was adored in the room; I don't see this trade happening if he was truly loved in the room. They would've given him at least another crack at it. This smells more like his contract sucks, his teammates either dislike him or are impartial and an opportunity presented itself to trade for a less horrible contract for a position player of need

 

[Emerald Duck]

I think Ovechkin will be taking out the trash by the end of training camp ...

 

[Andreas Ferrari]

Christmas came early.

 

[Torontonian]

Good on the kings for having the balls to get out of a bad situation,
Bad on the kings for trading for him and giving him a terrible contract.

I have no clue what the capitals are doing.

 

[Kurrilino]

Just in case anyone needed evidence of just how big a knucklehead Rob Blake is, effectively this moron traded Vilardi, Iafalo, Kupari, Dubois and this year’s King’s second round pick for Darcy Kuemper.

For those who say that goalies don’t have that kind of return value, Blake says “Hold my beer…”

Well, this is not entirely true,
it's Vilardi, Iafallo, Kupari and 2nd for Darcy Kuemper

Oh god....... this sounds even worse after typing it out.

 

[canadianmagpie]

Good on the kings for having the balls to get out of a bad situation,
Bad on the kings for trading for him and giving him a terrible contract.

I have no clue what the capitals are doing.

Capitals just want to get Ovechkin past Gretzky's goal record. They'll avoid a rebuild in order to do so. This somewhat helps I guess?

 

[Kurrilino]

Can you imagine any team ever CELEBRATING acquiring a 34 year old retread goalie coming off of a bad run while having three years left at a $5.25 million cap hit?

That's what my fellow Kings fans have been doing all day. It's like having a party to celebrate a manslaughter plea deal instead of rolling the dice on a jury verdict. Nobody won shit today, and the worst GM in team history keeps having to shave egg off his face to make room for the next helping.

Which will be in about two weeks when he overspends on Toffoli, or God forbid the Dubois-esque Mantha and somehow manages to ADD to the cap for worse goaltending and a player who will most likely be outproduced by Dubois next year.

And I say this being a goddam, card-carrying Dubois hater.

It just sucks all around.

I would phrase it different...

How incredible bad was the situation, that a transfer like that is celebrated by the fans.

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

PLD will get 70pts easily in Washington as he will be their #1C and will be on the #1 PP unit. Im sure Pierre is happy to hear the news as I know he was a miserable player playing on the Kings 4th line for the last half of last year. And rumour was, he was not liked by the rest of the players in the Kings locker room.

The big question is, will he be happy long term in Washington? How long before he quits on another team and demands another trade?

 

[Guitpik]

Well, this is not entirely true,
it's Vilardi, Iafallo, Kupari and 2nd for Darcy Kuemper

Oh god....... this sounds even worse after typing it out.

Actually it is entirely true. But, any way you slice it, it is unfreakin believable Blake screwed this whole thing up so badly.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

I'm hearing that Ovie has switched to 88 in order to let PLD have #8. Very cool / respectful of him

 

[BurntToast]

There are some riverboat gamblers in this league..

 

[SmytheKing]

I wonder how many more times folks will mention that the kings traded several assets to get Kuemper? Hopefully it continues to be at least once every page.

 

[DFF]

Just in case anyone needed evidence of just how big a knucklehead Rob Blake is, effectively this moron traded Vilardi, Iafalo, Kupari, Dubois and this year’s King’s second round pick for Darcy Kuemper.

For those who say that goalies don’t have that kind of return value, Blake says “Hold my beer…”

lol PLD had negative value

Kuemper return was negative

 

[SettlementRichie10]

I’ve never seen a player more instantly despised by the Kings fanbase than PLD.

He is the exact opposite kind of player you want on a contender.

 

[CanMerc]

Props to Blake for having the balls to make this move and effectively full blown admit you f***ed up, not that it's any consolation to that atrocious trade with WPG

Um, excuse me, but that WPG trade was not atrocious….wait, you mean from an LA Kings perspective, because from a Jets perspective it was gooooood

 

[gvineq]

What amazes me is PLD played 5 playoff games and had multiple games with no shots on goal. His fans blamed everything from his linemates to the system and everything else in between. I can't think of a bigger F-You to Blake, Robitaille and everyone else within the organization who brought him in, paid him $8.5 million and gave him a NTC as well as told him he was a cornerstone of the organization, Kopitar's eventual replacement.

Even now Blake is trying to blame the organization not doing enough to help PLD succeed. Homeboy was checked out before his bags were unpacked. I don't think I've ever been happier to see a player traded than I am, with PLD being gone. good riddance to bad/overpaid trash. I hope anyone silly enough to buy a PLD jersey is able to get a discount on a replacement.

 

[PriceIsGod]

PLD will get 70pts easily in Washington as he will be their #1C and will be on the #1 PP unit. Im sure Pierre is happy to hear the news as I know he was a miserable player playing on the Kings 4th line for the last half of last year. And rumour was, he was not liked by the rest of the players in the Kings locker room.

The big question is, will he be happy long term in Washington? How long before he quits on another team and demands another trade?

I don't think it would be wise to make him their #1C... at least not right away. Dylan Strome has looked solid and I think the last thing you want to do is hand PLD the #1 spot without making him earn it. He seriously needs to be humbled and someone needs to light a fire to make him hungry to compete again. IMO handing him a top line spot would continue to inflate his ego and feed into his belief that he can half ass everything.