INSTANT ANALYSIS - Pierre-Luc Dubois Traded for Darcy Kuemper 

This trade doesn't feel very CapsFriendly

“I can fix him” -Washington Capitals

Vilardi, Iafallo, Kupari, 2nd round, PLD for Darcy Kuemper. Great job Rob!

PLD wants to be the assist where Ovi breaks gretzky's record....next day he requests a trade lol

As a Caps fan, i'm absolutely screaming NOOOO right now. Getting rid of Kuempers' contract was great, acquiring a 7year Dubois contract in return was criminal at best.

Rob Blake doing a Kyle Dubas. Getting rid of their own mistake...and paying dearly for it.

Rob Blake acquired a 34 year old sub-par goalie with a 5 mil cap hit (who he originally traded when his cap hit was 650k) for 3 players who were 1st round picks, and 2 players who were 2nd round picks.....and he did about the same thing with Cal Petersen.....

I KNEW when the kings acquired Dubois they would live to regret it. And they gave up a TON for him too! Hahahah way to go Rob!

Capitals, to make it Full Circle (and hilarious!), sign Samsonov as goalie tandem to Lindgren.

PLD & Ovie on the back check😂

I'm interested to see if Ovi and PLD have any chemistry, it would be really cool to see both pop off playing along side eachother.

I wonder, really really wonder, if Washington buys out PLD. Buying out kuemper would have been a big penalty. Buying out PLD now is such a small penalty given his contract.

Not retaining or adding picks to get rid of pld is insane to me

Great trade for the Kings. Kuemper with Rattich at backup is credible and will compete. Portillo should be ready to be their starter the following season and Kuemper can be the backup. Year three they can buy Kuemper out if he's done. Washington is now on the hook for 7-years at $8.5M. Good luck with that. I watched every game PLD played this past season-- he's the Tin Man. No heart. And the wizard GM at Washington can hope and pray and rationalize that Dubois only needs more time on the power play to produce, but that's not the issue. This is hs 4th team at age 25-- for a guy with his skills and size, it tells you all you need to know. First it was his coach. Then it was playing in Winnipeg. With the Kings he wasn't placed in the right position to do well. Stop the excuses. He didn't earn time on the power play or a spot on the top two lines-- he's soft and played like he didn't give a damn. No one will ever confuse this guy as being a Tkachuk.

The no move doesn't transfer its honored by the team that signed him no who traded for him. They tried the same with pk when they traded for weber.

paccioretty and pld in the same locker room... i can see the commitment to professionalism in there

The question isn't if PLD wants to play for the Caps. It's if he wants to play professional hockey at all.

With all the talk that PLD was going to go to the habs, being in attendance in MTL at the draft and all, and seeing how things went... boy am I glad the Habs dodged that bullet. Jeez

I agree with not being able to trust PLD, but its wild how poorly the the top 2 goalie signings of the 2022 off season have ended up. Both Kuemper and Jack Campbell have been brutal. I think its tough to evaluate this deal until they both play hockey for their new teams. How will Kuemper respond to a new system? How will PLD respond to another change in scenery? Really tough to say.

Thank you Washington. Finally the utter nonsense of "the leafs should make a play for him" can stop.

Barry Trotz who coached the Capitals to their only Stanley cup and was not re signed, along with Kupari, Villardi and Iafallo must be laughing at the Capitals management

I don't even think you are betting on Kuemper being being good. I think you are bringing him in for a trail. If he's good and plays his way into staying it's a boon. If he's not good you buy him out at the end of the year and you are done with him and you move on. L.A. being able to get out from that albatross of a deal without retaining salary, without having to give up a first, without having to include a bunch of futures is absurd. Washington is taking a huge gamble that in my opinion makes literally no sense. Even if you believe you are heading into a rebuild (they should believe that) why take this on? If you window is to be bad and draft and start building. Your goal should be making noteable improvements in 5 years. This guy will still be under contract for another 3. Taking ice time from a younger talent that should be playing. I get weaponizing the cap. I get being willing to take on bad contracts when you aren't in a place to be good. 100%. But you get futures to do it. Not nothing.

Pure jokes. What the heck is WAS thinking? Darcy was bad, yes....so let's trade for PLD and his contract? Yikes.

Yeah not fond of that PLD contract. I might not believe in PLD, but i trust Carbery wholeheartedly. Its a high risk high reward scenario for the caps. Getting rid of Kuemper would have cost a few draft picks and adding a young skilled player would have also cost them a lot. They were looking for a young top 6 forward and all i can hope is that this works out.

Maybe Ovi and Wilson can "encourage" PLD to be a team player??

I seem to recall a game or two in the playoffs where PLD looked pretty good...... did I dream that ?

Rob Blake's strategy is more slanted than the artwork in Stevie Wonder's house...

You’re totally right about Dubois being a bergevin guy. He definitely talked him up in decision making. Wasn’t bergevin a “consultant” in LA?

SPOT ON! You can BO a NMC contract. You do not BO a contract if the player is on LTIR. Rob Blake quiz. 1. In terms of tenure of Kings GM history (there are 9), what rank is Blake in terms of tenure? 4th. 2. How many Kings GM have no PO series wins? 2. 3. Who is the longest tenured Kings GM w/o a PO series win? Blake. (The other is Sam McMaster, who served less than 3 yrs). 4. Who is the longest tenured GM of the current NHL GM's w/o a PO series win? Blake. That was also true at the start of the 23-24 season. Blake btw is the 6th longest tenured GM in his position. 5. As of 3/22, how many GM's had fewer yrs experience- at the time of their hire- in player evaluation/front office roster decisions than Blake? 2. (Drury and Sakic). It appears now that if the Q were asked today, the answer would be 1 (Drury). Sakic's successor as McFarland was hired as a A-GM by the AVS in 2015. Looks like the other newbies all had at least 3 yrs in a combination of these roles. I understood the Kuemper trade at the time. Quick was still performing well when Kuemper was dealt to AZ. One other thing- Cap hit for PLD was $562k more than the cap hits for Vilardi/Iafallo/Kupari last year. Vilardi and Kupari are RFA for at least another 2 yrs. Durzi was only 1.7mil and is RFA for another 2 yrs as well. PLD: 16G, 24A, 40pts (9 even strength goals), -9, 2nd worst on the club. Vilardi: 22G, 14A, 36pts (in only 47 games), +11 (13th best out of 30 on the club) Rob Blake's very first pick as GM. Iafallo: 11G, 16A, 27pts, +14 (10th best) Kupari: 0G, 1A, 5pts -5 (He's a bust) That's 17 more G's, 7 more A's for less money. Oh, Durzi: 9G, 32A, 41pts, -1 (18th best out of 38 players, but highest scoring d-man for the Yotes by a mile). Yea, Blake turned a disastrous transaction into a bad one. However, he, Luc, and Bergevin all gotta go.

Durzi was traded but his pick was included in the PLD trade so adding up Iafallo, Vilardi, Kupari, and Durzi would currently cost $10.1 million. PLD cost $8.5 mill. Kings erased all that for Kuemper at $5.25 mill for just 2 years. Plus the Kings needed a goalie.

PLD trade tree please

These people saying Rob Blake made a mistake by signing PLD were also the same people calling it the PLD lottery last summer

So what does this mean for the Kings' Centre depth? Are they players for Elias Lindholm now?

Marner to LA?

Great Video, as usual, guys. I didn't see this coming. LOL

Caps: PLD will find his next level with us. Me: Cue in Tim Robinson's "You sure about that?"

I agree with Jesse, I don't think Rob Blake is a very good GM either.

Somehow seems like a great move for both teams

Solid move by Caps. Kemps career since the birth of his child has gone down. I think his priority has shifted. PLD will be 1C with Caps, expecting 25+ goals, 45+ assists. Carbery experiment with Mantha, Strome, and McMichael have all paid dividends. PLD will be next.

Each team is trading a headache for a stubbed toe, they're both just begging and would grovel (as in do almost anything and make any and every effort possible) just to feel a different type of excruciating pain

I just dont get this trade for the caps. I just dont. The only possibility is that if he turns on some jets and figures it out, which i doubt. Ill try to be optimistic. But like....8x8 is TOUGH. Even without the NMC

Maybe Blake likes Marner?

Who is going to take Dubois if he can't preform at even half his salary? No one. This is the Capitals shooting themselves in the foot.

Everybody laugh at Marc Bergevin but he did something nobody in Toronto did in the last 57 years He went to the Stanley Cup final with a team composed of a first line of #90 Tomas Tatar #24 Philippe Danault and #11 Brendan Gallagher. Of course the habs has a better D and a much better goalie in Carey Price than anything in Toronto since 1967. Including #29 Félix "The Cat" Potvin, #31 Curtis "Cujo" Joseph

Everybody mentions Villardi, but nobody mentions he was a FA. The Kings couldn't afford to pay him, especially with his injury history. So the Kings lost Iafallo and a 2nd, because Kupari was nothing. He wouldn't even have played for the Kings.

Yeah, Jesse. I agree with you in Rob Blake not being a good GM at all, except for that trade, which he probably learned to do from Chris Drury with The Sammy Blais deal back

Super optimistic for the Caps and Dubois

The Los Angeles Kings announced they have acquire SDPN to make sure they had shut us for while so we can laugh anymore at they own incompetence.

This might be one of the worst Lose-Lose trades I've ever seen.

How long do you think until he tries to force his way out of Washington if they struggle to make the playoffs. 😂

A good GM gets rid of his own mistakes as soon as possible. Most GM's are afraid of the reaction and just play it back again.

If this can happen, surely Mitchell Marner knows a fresh start could be his as well

Capitals bought cap friendly so they have all the info for a "Money Puck" aka Moneyball type year rebuild

Can Talbot is streaky...goes on some good winning streaks, but never keeps it up.

Kevin Chevaldayoff isnt perfect but hes pretty damn good overtime and has fleeced teams waaaaay more than once

Marner should have been traded last July.1st..damn no trades

I wanted Markstrom, but Calgary wasnt taking PLD. Markstrom wouldve looked good on the back of the new Kings Jersey.

Washington needs top line guys. They have too many middle 6 players. They need top line players to push everyone else down the roster. PLD is just more of what Washington already had

So PLDs contract will mysteriously disappear from the Caps salary... nicely done Washington, first buying CF and now making this trade 👀

You can buy out his contract affter his birthday but once he turns 26 his classification changes andbtge buyout becomes more expensive.

Didn’t Blake already see and know what so many GMs already knew about PLD?

As a Kings fan, Blake isnt a good GM, but this particular move was good if you dont think about how we got here.

I get the apprehension after last season and the price tag, but PLD's stats in his two prior seasons 27g, 36a in 73gp in 22-23 28g, 32a in 81 gp in 21-22 I don't think this is the guaranteed L for the Caps that I have been hearing it is.

Adam is right, Habs Fandom is so happy Bergy is gone.

Washington is hoping to get a player who can fill seats during a rebuild

Where is the Markstrom trade

If anyone can fix PLD. Its carbary

Kings Fan - I agree with Jesse. Blake got out of this horrible decision, but it was his mistake. One of many. One of my favorite Kings players but Blake needs to go. Let's not ask the question, why would the Caps want that cancer the PLD is? Three teams now can attest to this.

using the AI general manager in NHL24 would be more effective than Rob Blake lol

If they got that for Keumper then i camt waot to see what the Bruins get for Ullmark

You can start a new thing, the lottery draft trade tree 😂 Without Winnipeg and Columbus winning the draft in 2016, none of this would've happened 😂

Pass to ovechkin

Adam talking like a Habs fan criticizing Bergevin constantly. He does have a point though.

What a great trade

Carbery will get the best out of PLD This will be seen as a massive Win for WSH in a year or two

The level of hate for PLD is unreal. This is going to age poorly when he tears it up next year.

I wonder if we can afford Roy and Arvy now.

Dubois wasn't the right trade but i can forgive Blake for trying to do something. i'd rather have a GM that takes shots than one that sits pat. Vilardi, iafallo, kupari, should have been moved, it just shouldn't have been for dubois in hindsight.

Cal Pettersson and PLD saves...thanks Philly and Washington

as a Caps fan, I’d like to die today.

If PLD can find his happy place in Washington, he has the ability to get 30 goals and 75 to 80 points a year. He has the talent, just the motivation is questionable. This could be a good trade or not so much. Good luck Washington fans.

As Montreal fan I totally blame Bergevin 🤣 Bargain bin Bergevin is only good for small trades.

Imagine if the Kings had a goalie like Quick...

Of course it was a Bergevin recommandation move to sign Dubois

Oh... the Kings are going to regret getting Kuemper. You Leafs fans know how it feels to get a cast-off Washington netminder.... do y'all still remember Sammy? As for the Caps getting PLD... we hope it won't be another Kuzy, we're ready for another Kuzy.

Iafallo wasn’t good last year but was amazing with LA so I think he can rebound but Kupari is basically a bust and so it was basically Vilardi and a 2nd

So glad Dubois is gone. Blake is not a great GM, but at least he sorta fixed his massive mistake.

Charlie Rose took the ticket. Hell awaits him.

Why the Hell did the Caps do this?

Dubois was at his most competitive when he had Tort running down Hell on him. That's what he needs. Of course that's when he requested a trade but the proof is in the pudding. The guy is a big spoiled teddy bear that needs a whiping.

I am a Caps fan and their GM, Brian McClellan, should be fired on the spot for trading for Pierre Luc-Dubois

Darcy will fill in until Portillo comes up to take the net in a year or so. Portillo is the future. PLD for seven years will ruin a franchise.

PLD is poison poor Washington

Dylan Strome is proof that you can succeed in Washington

Blake did the same stupid thing with Cal Peterson

dubois for marner???

Washington needs a new GM

Habs fan this screams Bergevin 🤣🤷🤦

Bergevin shouldn't be in the NHL, any team that hires him should be ashamed of themselves.

Win win