He's also a locker room cancer who makes others on the team worse. So no, he would not make Montreal better. Especially not at $8.5 million a season. It's one of the worst contracts in the league, so no team is better off with him.

MTL has Chris Wideman, PLD doesn't compare...

And you're saying replacing PLD with Tanner Pearson, LA isn't automatically worse?

No. Because it's Pearson and $5.25 million in extra cap room.

You said PLD wouldn't make MTL better, replace Pearson or Josh Anderson with PLD in the same lineup, PLD does better

If PLD is in, then both Pearson and Anderson have to be gone. And that's assuming Montreal had to give up NOTHING to get PLD.

Then you have the issue of being bad in the locker room.

Some players are such a big problem that their team gets better when they leave.

You're ignoring them as players and that my point... Take away the cap space and as players, PLD is a MASSIVE upgrade over Pearson and/or JA

My point has nothing to do with cap space but rather players in position x performing at level y

That’s what I was thinking, that this may be all about succession planning. I didn’t see it but there was a game last week when Kopitar was out and Dubois took his spot, contributing a goal on the power play. Kopitar is still going strong, but he’ll be 37 years old at the start of next season. Dubois is a long-term investment. With Kopitar as his mentor, the Kings are probably hoping he can become a better all-around player and more of a leader, and be ready to step into Kopitar’s spot when Kopitar retires. They didn’t bring him in to play on the fourth line.

Whether this plan works or not remains to be seen. He’ll probably never be as good as Kopitar, but he doesn’t necessarily have to be. The first year hasn’t been good (though the team is pretty much as good as it was last season, so it hasn’t really hurt them), but I agree that it’s probably too soon to judge whether this was a good move.

PL Dubois woke up feeling DANGEROUS today 🔥🔥😤😤0 Goals on purpose 0 Assists 4 PIMs 46% FO% pic.twitter.com/Bym5L0vBHp

— Pizza Man Danault (@PizzaManDanault) April 23, 2024

Anything to do with Bergevin is sour grapes. PLD wasn't just a Blake acquire. This was Bergevin's buddy (PLD's agent) and Bergevin with more theatrics. Bergevin kicked out the alumni of the dressing rooms (confirmed by Mike Commodore and Chris Nilan) and played favourites with 'his guys' notably Gallagher over others he disliked like Andrei Markov/Max Pacioretty/PK Subban.

Habs fans will always despise Bergevin and his minions like PLD's agent. That is the context here that some missed and are trying to defend PLD by for example calling him the Habs 5th best forward like wut that has nothing to do with anything but trolling from the king of mental gymnastics.

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— A Literal L’Mouse (@IliadRy) April 23, 2024

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA PLD NEEDED AN OWN GOAL TO HELP HIMSELF BAHAHAHAHAHAHA https://t.co/iEY4JYg3mT

— A Literal L’Mouse (@IliadRy) April 23, 2024

Own goal Dubois. Perfect. Nurse and him are really the same guy. So, of course, Nurse helps him out there. They should both thank their agents. Overpaid and Overhyped. I have no idea how Kent Hughes got Nurse that contract. Wizardry.

I remember when the talking heads said PLD was there to counter McDrai. He actually made the Kings much worse. I will never STOP clowning this guy.

Looking back LA really did not have to make this trade and now with the cap constraints for next year better hope he rebounds

But then again his buyouts looking pretty nice

This may go down as one of the worst trades in history. Just about everyone knew PLD was extremely overrated yet LA still made this trade. Why I don’t think we will ever know.

Worst contract in hockey.

This as well. No one is touching it.

10.5m for seven more years of 30 year of Huberdeau....might be worse. PLD being under the age of 26, makes his buyout easier .

What are the actual odds PLD gets bought out?

Both turds that can't be seasoned enough to be eaten! I would take Huberdeau over Dubois, at least Hubie isn't lazy but just low on confidence because of Sutter. Too much money for Huberdeau but he can be saved.

PLD is cancer lol @Kings

Huberdeau has struggled the last two years, but I think he can return to being a point-a-game player who can make his linemates better. That's worth at least close to $10.5 million a season. It would still be an inefficient contract, but not a truly bad contract.

PLD, at his best, is a 60-point player who makes his teammates worse. He wouldn't be worth more than $3 to $4 million and only then for a team with a very good coach / captain to keep him inline.

Im going 50/50 but it may be more reasonable to say 60/40

Considering how Blake is staying I feel like he doesn't. If he does get bought out might as well fire Blake too, insane how fast this blew up I think PLD wants to be bought out so he can be a hab