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Expect the worst, you’ll never be disappointed.
Later dickhead, I hope California ends up in the Pacific in 3 years (kidding, I have family in Anaheim). I wish nothing but the worst in your career.
Forcing a trade once could easily not be on the player, twice and something smells funny, 3 times already in a fairly short time frame and I'm glad he's gone. I highly doubt he was quiet to all the players about being unhappy AGAIN.After forcing two trades in six years, Pierre-Luc Dubois understands why he might not have the best reputation around hockey.
Now a member of the Los Angeles Kings with a new eight-year contract, Dubois is looking forward to changing that image.
"I'm just extremely happy to be here and to be here for a long time, and just show really who I really am and not just an image of what people think, people that they think they know me," Dubois said Monday.
Full: Dubois looks to change reputation with Kings
I have less and less respect for this guy. He gets paid millions of dollars, yet his mouth is bigger than his performance on the ice. Actions speak louder than words.
I'd imagine there's a few things here. Not having any French Canadians on the team, the immense pressure of being traded for a fan fave, and people twisting and misinterpreting everything he did when I think he was just trying to be forthcoming.Not sure what to make of this... PLD felt like he couldn't be himself here? Makes me wonder how he fit in the room (although by some accounts, he was a the social co-ordinator)
""Honestly, I think it's just an opportunity for me to be who I am," Dubois said Monday. "I think I'm misunderstood at times, but I think a lot of people don't really know me. And that's fine. Sometimes in this world it's hard to get to know guys. … Now it'll be a fun opportunity for me to just be who I am. Not show anybody, not prove to anybody, but just fully be me."
Dubois excited for opportunity to 'fully be me' with Kings | NHL.com
Forward signed 8-year contract after being acquired in trade with Jets on June 27www.nhl.com
PLD is dead to the Jets...can we kill this thread now
I don't understand what is there not to understand. The guy obviously never wanted to be in a "unattractive market/city" which is why he forced his way out of Colombus but since he was too young to dictate anything, he wasn't able to get a trade to some market/city he wants to stay permanently and ended up being in Winnipeg. He accepted it (I'm not saying he throve in it or embraced it!), did well enough to keep his value around the league high enough, started preparing the media and NHL community about the fact, that he's gonna want to go somewhere else, someplace he's gonna love and stay for a longer time. He used the Montreal connection as his "when nothing else I like comes by, I'm just gonna end up signing home and be happy with it and if something maybe even better comes by, like Los Angeles or New York says hello - well maybe even better" and this is exactly what happend. He completely acted along his rights as a NHL player before the UFA status. The first team he left got a very decent return, his second team he left got a very decent return.
"I feel like now I can be who I am" - he might very well mean exactly that. Now he can finally be the person or rather live the life he was dreaming about. He doesn't have to tippytoe around people asking him week in and week out about how much he likes being in a place he's only "meh" about. Sure, it's called "acting profesionally" - and he did. He never slipped and said "you know what - I don't like it here. Sorry. This just isn't my thing. I have nothing against you guys here in Manitoba and around your lakes and in your hockey crazy cold city - I get it, I mean I'm Canadien myself - but I wish for a different life personally. Sorry." because you obviously just can't do that. I fully expect him to at some point in time, maybe at the end of his career, go on a podcast and saying exactly that. "no hard feelings, I just wanted to be where I dreamt of being. People are different. I'm just more like 'THAT' kind of person. Sorry - it's nothing personal".
*edit*
"... Canadian myself." Man I've been doing that mistake for ten years now and somehow I will never learn Canadian/Canadien But in his case, it kind of works anyway...
Meh, I don't know. Personally, I would have loved to hear "Winnipeg is a great city and TNSE is a first class organization, but it's always been my dream to play in a bigger/warmer/more metropolitan market". If that's who PLD is, I think most fans would have appreciated hearing the truth instead of the constant deflections and dodges.I'd imagine there's a few things here. Not having any French Canadians on the team, the immense pressure of being traded for a fan fave, and people twisting and misinterpreting everything he did when I think he was just trying to be forthcoming.
You can see why players are so robotic and calculating in their discourse in a market as fanatical as Winnipeg.
I still say something happened in Montreal in December that threw the whole Jets season off track... I think my joke about PLD partying with Montreal players instead of the Jets maybe wasn't that far off after allForcing a trade once could easily not be on the player, twice and something smells funny, 3 times already in a fairly short time frame and I'm glad he's gone. I highly doubt he was quiet to all the players about being unhappy AGAIN.
I still say something happened in Montreal in December that threw the whole Jets season off track... I think my joke about PLD partying with Montreal players instead of the Jets maybe wasn't that far off after all
He was injured in March no?Or the hip injury he said he got in January was the culprit.
He was injured in March no?
After forcing two trades in six years, Pierre-Luc Dubois understands why he might not have the best reputation around hockey.
Now a member of the Los Angeles Kings with a new eight-year contract, Dubois is looking forward to changing that image.
"I'm just extremely happy to be here and to be here for a long time, and just show really who I really am and not just an image of what people think, people that they think they know me," Dubois said Monday.
Full: Dubois looks to change reputation with Kings
I have less and less respect for this guy. He gets paid millions of dollars, yet his mouth is bigger than his performance on the ice. Actions speak louder than words.
I hope you are not a NFL or NBA fan. The players in that league do much worse. Lillard in Portland has done way worse than PLD and the fan base does not hate him as much as Winnipeg hates PLD
We will see a lot more of this going forward
Let's hope it's McJesus or Bedard forcing there way here