Confirmed with Link: Pierre-Luc Dubois signs - 2 years, $10 mil ($3.5/$6.5)

[Cowumbus]

MOD EDIT:
I moved the PLD signing here and included the lead-up discussion regarding the Tweets about him not being in town or whatever. So all of the current PLD stuff, including the new contract, is here.

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[DJA]

Oh boy

 

[Cowumbus]

Oh boy

We are cursed (bc Jarmo?)

 

[DJA]

We are cursed.

Dubois for Laine and Roslovic would be the only way this would work for me.

But yeah, I wonder if Jarmo's hardball is coming back to bite us again.

 

[CBJWerenski8]

Please tell me more about how this hard line approach is normal and we don’t spoil relationships with our players. Such a f***ing joke.

 

[Cowumbus]

Dubois for Laine and Roslovic would be the only way this would work for me.

But yeah, I wonder if Jarmo's hardball is coming back to bite us again.

That doesn’t make us better though. Roslovic isn’t more than a third line player, and Laine is one dimensional.

Dubois has shown (at times) he can carry a line on his own. Laine cannot.

 

[CBJWerenski8]

Also feel free to have open season on Portzline now for peddling the “all sides point to him being in camp on time” bull shit if this holdout comes true. He painted a pretty picture and it looks like it’s the complete opposite.

 

[Finner]

Well this sums up the year 2020 PLD doesnt want to resign. What the f*ck

 

[LoveCBJ]

Had a feeling that PLD would screw us.

 

[Cowumbus]

Maybe a negotiation tactic (which is super shitty) but yeah I’m not feeling good about it.

 

[DJA]

That doesn’t make us better though. Roslovic isn’t more than a third line player, and Laine is one dimensional.

Dubois has shown (at times) he can carry a line on his own. Laine cannot.

Would be very hard to make a trade now regardless and going into the season without him makes us a bottom feeder.

Lets hope this was leaked to Lebrun as a way to move negotiations along but his agent doesn't really seem like that type.

 

[DJA]

Dubois has been skating in Columbus for several weeks now, so there will be no travel delay after he signs. It could all come together very quickly.

so Portzline was off or Dubois left town and didn’t tell anyone?

 

[DaveMatthew]

Really sucks to see Dubois wanting out, certainly know what that feels like as a Sens fan.

Question for you guys though - if this report is accurate and there’s no way to keep him.

Would you rather trade him 1:1 for another star in a similar situation (ie. Laine), or for a bigger package of top prospects and picks?

 

[DJA]

Really sucks to see Dubois wanting out, certainly know what that feels like as a Sens fan.

Question for you guys though - if this report is accurate and there’s no way to keep him.

Would you rather trade him 1:1 for another star in a similar situation (ie. Laine), or for a bigger package of top prospects and picks?

As mentioned above, I like a Laine/Roslovic package

 

[DarkandStormy]

Btw, Jarmo took the negotiations public (not PLD) by saying "the offer gets worse if it's not done by start of camp."

 

[Toe Pick]

Dubois for Laine and Roslovic would be the only way this would work for me.

But yeah, I wonder if Jarmo's hardball is coming back to bite us again.

Agree on both points.

Cleary the negotiations are at in impasse and I'm sure on the advice of his agent Dubois packed his bags and left town.

I understand RFA leverage and on the surface this hardball negotiation strategy with your cornerstone players is toxic -- but hard to know who is being unreasonable without the numbers.

Guess we'll see if this "need a change of scenery" tactic by the Dubois group lights any kind of fire with Jarmo. I personally think it will do the opposite and cause Jarmo to dig in even further.

One thing is for sure is the optics of this are shit once again for the Jackets -- i.e. yet another blue chip player wants to leave town.

 

[Nanabijou]

I was hoping we could have a training camp without drama but 2020 strikes again. Hopefully he signs tomorrow when we put this crappy year behind us.

 

[DarkandStormy]

 

[DJA]

from PLD's perspective, what's the point of leaving town?

 

[Nanabijou]

from PLD's perspective, what's the point of leaving town?

Ramps up the pressure. Gets the fan base riled up against management as we see on the board the last few hours. If he's skating in Columbus, it looks likely that he'll sign as alluded to in the recent Porty article.

 

[DJA]

Sounds like Jarmo f***ed something up in the past 24 hours if he was here for weeks then packed his bags on New Year's Eve Eve and skipped town.

 

[GeorgeReznik1]

Sounds like Jarmo f***ed something up in the past 24 hours if he was here for weeks then packed his bags on New Year's Eve Eve and skipped town.

Or there's no truth that he left town.

 

[majormajor]

Dubois for Laine and Roslovic would be the only way this would work for me.

But yeah, I wonder if Jarmo's hardball is coming back to bite us again.

Wow, you would be disappointed. That's a weak bottom six F and a floating mercurial sniper that didn't even shoot that well last year, not fun to watch. In terms of play-driving ability Columbus drops off the map with that trade.

Please tell me more about how this hard line approach is normal and we don’t spoil relationships with our players. Such a f***ing joke.

Hard to say without knowing the details. Jarmo could have a $7.5m x 8 offer waiting for him and Brisson is putting out rumors to try and extort another $250k. Contentious stuff in the media is not necessarily a sign that Jarmo is playing hardball. If he is, I would be equally p***ed off at Jarmo. He has done that in the past, but this is his only #1C, doesn't seem like a reasonable situation to play hardball.

so Portzline was off or Dubois left town and didn’t tell anyone?

He was just in Columbus. Actually the detail of Dubois being "out of town" is encouraging because that almost certainly means the whole rumor, including the bit about maybe wanting a trade, is cooked up as a pressure tactic from Brisson. You wouldn't see those two bits being first reported at the same time unless it was coming from him.

Really sucks to see Dubois wanting out, certainly know what that feels like as a Sens fan.

Question for you guys though - if this report is accurate and there’s no way to keep him.

Would you rather trade him 1:1 for another star in a similar situation (ie. Laine), or for a bigger package of top prospects and picks?

1:1 for a player that is actually as good as him (i.e. better than Laine). Barzal would do.

But no, "really sucks to see Dubois wanting out" is just way too premature. This is a rumor being deliberately spread by Brisson at the 11th hour of a long negotiation, where they are probably not too far apart.

 

[DarkandStormy]

Or there's no truth that he left town.

lol two reporters are saying he's not in Columbus.

 

[CBJWerenski8]

Really sucks to see Dubois wanting out, certainly know what that feels like as a Sens fan.

Question for you guys though - if this report is accurate and there’s no way to keep him.

Would you rather trade him 1:1 for another star in a similar situation (ie. Laine), or for a bigger package of top prospects and picks?

Dubois doesn’t want out. This is a negotiation tactic.