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

[Kalv]

My day is ruined.

A day or 7 years, mate?

 

[Lt Dan]

An interesting exchange of bad contracts.

The Kings have a history with Keumper and helped turn his career back around.

 

[Roshi]

Well as a Caps fan… i really dont know how i feel about this.

Its high risk, high reward. I dont maybe hate it yet. Ill learn to hate it though when Dubois turns out to be exactly what everyone says he is

But also if Dubois turns out to become a 70 point center for 5-6 years for us, BM will look like a freaking genious. If he sucks, well clock it in, we are going for the long rebuild. I kind of get where we are going with it.

 

[Xoggz22]

Dubois becomes a 70 point player with the Caps and the Kings miss the playoffs.

...Said no one ever

 

[Monkey D Luffy]

Dubois’ fourth team and he’s only 26. Jesus.

Something tells me it wasn't Winnipeg's lack of high end shopping.

 

[Vukotal Recall]

This is actually a great trade for both teams considering the position they're both in (or that they put themselves in). Better for LA but look at Washington's roster. They need young players, and that lower-pressure environment could potentially help PLD who, despite his apparent attitude issues, isn't nearly as bad as he's played recently. This is the kind of trade that should happen more often, but rarely does. Fun!

 

[Petes2424]

To think, all those sleepless night for LA fans, waiting for the deal to finally hit, to a year later now knowing your manager gave all that up, for Darcy Kuemper at $5 million per.

As for Washington, other than PLD now taking up 10% of your cap, you get out from Kuemper but they’re still taking a major chance here.

There will NOT be a 4th team thinking they’ll fix PLD. We’re at the point, he needs to wake up one morning soon, deciding he’d like to participate as an NHL player. Good bet he has a couple of mediocre years and the Caps finally buy him out. He’s left us no other options to predict. Until he changes his approach, people aren’t changing their minds about him.

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

Imagine still having a job after trading for Dubois and giving him an anchor contract just to trade it not evern a year later

 

[91Fedorov]

Why not just buy out Kuemper?

He's older and it's a 66% buyout. If they complete it fast enough, PLD is a 33% buyout.

 

[Bcap88]

A team that doesn’t play offensively acquired an overpaid forward who doesn’t provide offensively

Match made in heaven

 

[Malaka]

Dude signed on for 8 years to live in Malibu and play for the LA kings and after a year into it right before his NTC kicks in he gets traded to the Washington CapFriendlys

Buddy went from the beach to Baltimore

 

[Some Other Flame]

It's a win for the Kings but it stills looks terrible. In effect, they traded Vilardi, Iafallo, Kupari, and a 1st for Kuemper.

How is Blake still employed?

Also, poor Caps. It's gonna be a long mess after Ovechkin retires

 

[Ezekial]

Listing the assets he traded for PLD and saying it's for Kuemper somehow makes the trade even more comical.

 

[Monsieur Miz]

Some of these comments are comical. Especially the ones before they knew about the return.

This is a circumstantial type trade. Caps badly need a center to play with Ovi. And the Caps probably realized what I have said over and over again.... The clear trend here is Dubois produces when he plays in a high usage role with talent and fades in the shadows when he doesn't. I bet you he produces this year with Ovi.

Go ahead and put your foot in your mouth before you see the results. "Caps are dumb"

People laughed at the Dylan Strome acquisition as well and he seems to be doing more than fine.

Honestly the dude seems to be in love with himself so being known as the one who helped Ovechkin break Gretzky's record might actually motivate him.

 

[Xoggz22]

I think the 1/3 buyout window is closed thanks to Oilers game 4/5 heroics. To be eligible for 1/3 he has to be bought out by the 23rd - he is too old on the 24th his birthday. buyout window opens 48 hrs after cup is awarded. game 6 is on the 21st plus 48 hours would leave a small window or no window. Oilers win last night may have saved PLD a ton of money

Still open if Florida wins in 6. If it goes 7, they lose that chance. Not likely the reason to do this anyway, but...

 

[AlexModvechkin8]

Eh you can find some cool shit outside of DC but the city itself sucks. Old town Alexandria is fun, National harbor was pretty nice, a few other places.

Lived in Old Town for 8 years, it’s the best. Some of the city does suck for sure but there are some great parts as well. Fun fact: DC has the third-highest density of Michelin-starred restaurants anywhere in the world.

DC gets a bad rep for being a stuffy political city and for good reason but that has really shifted over the past 15 years or so. It’s not the best city in the world but it’s still pretty cool and it’s a great place to raise a family.

 

[Royale With Cheese]

Is it possible that either of these guys get bought out by their new teams?

 

[Jumptheshark]

Out of interest did PLD have to agree to this trade?

11 days away from a full NMC kicking in.

July 1st at 00:01 it kicks in

 

[CycloneSweep]

Like playing a scoring winger in a shut down role and being surprised he's not effective. If he was a perfect player he wouldn't have gotten traded

Half way through the year with top 6 minutes and I'd bet the Caps are happy

He wasn’t effective in a scoring role, they were trying to win so they had to play guys who could get it done above him. It’s not complicated.

 

[mr figgles]

He's older and it's a 66% buyout. If they complete it fast enough, PLD is a 33% buyout.

Even at 2/3 it‘s still way less money

 

[Accelleratii]

how is Rob Blake still employed? All of HF Boards could do better than this (heck, 90% of HFB wouldn't have traded for PLD in the first place!)

 

[Terry Yake]

damn, blake might have just salvaged his job with this one. didn't think anyone would be willing to take on that contract

 

[Gil Gunderson]

PLD went from basically being able to play wherever he wanted to being stuck on a bottom 10 team for several years. His best bet is to play his ass off and request a trade in a year or two with his improved stock.

 

[Figgy44]

I get why LA did this, but no clue why Wsh does this. Kuemper is an easier buyout that PLD if he doesn't get back to at least 60 pts.

My thoughts are that the Caps actually have a rare and unique objective.

They know rebuild is around the corner. They're doing what they can but not to circle the drain and see if they can squeeze in one last run (ie: a team like the Pens who could potentially achieve that). Instead they're acquiring decent enough roster talent around Ovi for the next few years to help Ovi break the goal scoring record before he retires. After that, perhaps they're shrugging at the fact that PLD will help with the Cap floor in a rebuild.

They moved Kuznetsov and Backstrom may not return due to injury... this is the next best option to get decent enough top 6C talent for Ovi to play with?

 

[Il Stugotz]

Have people seen how fat OVI is?

taken before they started playing