In my opinion the caps have way more upside on this trade and it is crazy to think how much LA paid only to have Kuemper!

PPPFFFFFHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Boom or bust for Washington but why not give it a try.

Pretty Low risk, high reward trade for the Caps. If he bounces back this will be an all time trade.

If he doesn’t bounce back, then the Caps will just have to bottom out once Ovi retires. Which was already a possibility

IN YOUR FACE CAPS !!!!!

Blake just handed MacLellan a ticking time bomb…and MacLellan added gratuity.

Lol, you think Kuemper is gratuity?

Kind of funny that when you pull up LAK trade history on here that the last two moves were acquiring PLD and then trading him less than a year later:

https://www.capfriendly.com/trades/kings

Wat?

PLD was outed as a lazy **** by Torts years ago.

i know everyone is making fun of the caps but...

the kings somehow turned vilardi, iafallo, kupari, and a second into darcy kuemper

lmao

Big W for LA. Obligatory F the Caps.

That 2nd was acquired by trading away Durzi to ARZ just a few days before the traded for PLD. Its crazy that all LAK has to show for trading away all those players is Darcy Kuemper

So the Caps will be paying both Dubois & Tom Wilson $15M AAV combined until 2031…no wonder why they bought this website.

Hang it in the Louvre!

Yah what the heck is this Washington, don’t like this for them at all

Both deals suck, but at least Kuemper's is shorter and costs less. LA wins.

What the f*ck is this day??

Looooool, just terrible from the caps.
Even if they don’t like Kuemper, his contract is only 5x2, PLD they’re stuck with 8.5 x 7!!!!

Epic epic fail!

lol, Crapitals deserve every bit of alleged negativity PLD brings. While I'd be down for a PLD bounceback, I'm against it if it's for the Caps.
F the Caps.

Kuemper buy out

2024-25: $2.17m
2025-26: $3.67m
2026-27: $4.42m
2027-28: $0.92m
2028-29: $0.92m
2029-30: $0.92m

Even if Kings made trade just to buy out Kuemper…it’s probably a win over long-term. Dubois’s buyout is 14-years and higher cap charge at peak. LAK just created a lot of flexibility.

(Not saying anyone will be bought out)

This is actually horrific for Washington what are they doing?

So Capfriendly how do you plan on getting out of that PLD contract next year?

Spent all that money on capfriendly and didn’t even check it to see how much Dubois makes 💀

Kevin Cheveldayoff won this trade

As a CBJ fan, I am currently high on the catharsis lol