2024-25 Season Thread

[PuckinUgly57]

Capitals tracked Pierre-Luc Dubois for years before trading for him and believed his problems in LA were solely usage-based

The Washington Capitals made a slew of big moves this past offseason, fueling an on-the-fly retool that has them atop the NHL's…

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Just to rehash that the PLD stuff wasn't a fever dream.

It wasn't. Yeah he looks uninspiring which is on him, but he also wasn't put in positions to succeed like say Buster has been. PP time? Nope. L1 duties? Nope. Quality wingers? Nope.

The trade was bizarro to begin with but how he was handled was even more weird. Why trade for and sign an $8 million a year guy if you aren't going to utilize him properly? That's on Blake and McLellan and Hiller.

Was watching the Caps Oilers tonight on CI and guess who scored the GW goal to win 3-2 and help the Kings in the standings...

 

[Kings4OT]

I know most Kings fans dont like PLG because he looks like Pencakes while playing instead of the Lizard. But the fact of the matter is he is a decent playmaker, He is difficult to play against and can draw penalties. I know everybody wants a playmaker to be able to drive his own line And get a shit ton of points from the third line with no real offensive Opportunities But that's not how play makers usually work. They need somebody to accept the pass and bury it. If you go back.
And watch a lot of those games.He was making the pass, but either nobody would be there where they should be.Or they could not make the play from the pass. Whether you like your players or not you need to play them for success. Paying that guy eight million was just stupid.... He's not a player.I would have went after but They did need to do something With the legend....