{"id":138445,"date":"2023-06-27T15:55:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T19:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=138445"},"modified":"2023-06-27T16:10:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T20:10:12","slug":"pierre-luc-dubois-signs-with-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/06\/27\/pierre-luc-dubois-signs-with-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre-Luc Dubois Signs With Winnipeg, Paves Way for Trade to Los Angeles Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/duboipi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-06-19_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pierre-Luc Dubois<\/a> reached an agreement for his future, as he signs an eight-year extension with an $8.5 million AAV with the Winnipeg Jets. The deal comes just in time for his trade to the Los Angeles Kings, and was actually negotiated with Kings management<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hearing the eight-year extension for Pierre-Luc Dubois will carry an $8.5M AAV in the sign-and-trade with Los Angeles. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NorthStarBet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@NorthStarBet<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TSN_Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reporterchris\/status\/1673774329635672070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Pierre-Luc Dubois Signs New Deal<\/h2>\n<p>A deal with the Winnipeg Jets was always going to be a difficult one. The restricted free agent made no secret of his desire to play in front of his hometown <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/canadiens\/\" target=\"_self\">Montr\u00e9al Canadiens<\/a>. The problem is that Dubois is very good at hockey. No team is giving him away. However, the Los Angeles Kings finalized a sign and trade.<\/p>\n<p>Drafted third overall in 2016, Dubois lived up to the lofty selection immediately. His 20-goal rookie season in <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/bluejackets\/\" target=\"_self\">Columbus<\/a> was followed by a 27-goal sophomore one. But he wanted to move to a &#8220;larger market&#8221; than the one in Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>His trade to the Jets for sniper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lainepa01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-06-19_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrik Laine<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rosloja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-06-19_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack Roslovic<\/a> was a surprise. Not the deal, but the destination. When his previous two-year deal expired, he signed for just a single one in Winnipeg at $6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Pierre-Luc Dubois&#8217; stated desires, he has still produced. Not as much as Laine, the player taken ahead of him, but his 2022-23 season included 27 goals and 63 points in just 73 games. His entire, six-season NHL career has seen him as a top-two centre.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means<\/h3>\n<p>At this point, Pierre-Luc Dubois is seated ideally as a second-line centre. He has very good finish, but a lot of it was on the power play where he&#8217;s scored 26 of his 55 goals over the past two seasons. Goals count whenever they&#8217;re scored, but you want to see a bit more 5-on-5.<\/p>\n<p>His possession play is also solid, never finishing a season with a sub-.500 Corsi. But we&#8217;re still waiting to see him play where he&#8217;s happy and what happens then.<\/p>\n<p>Splitting time on both the Jets&#8217; top line with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/connoky01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-06-19_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyle Connor<\/a> and Mark Schiefele and with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/perfeco01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-06-19_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cole Perfetti<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/wheelbl01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-06-19_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blake Wheeler<\/a> showed some of Dubois&#8217; versatility. That is the minimum of what the team is paying for, and at 24 years old he should take a step forward.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: Terrence Lee-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pierre-Luc Dubois reached an agreement for his future, as he signs an eight-year extension with an $8.5 million AAV with the Winnipeg Jets. The deal comes just in time for his trade to the Los Angeles Kings, and was actually negotiated with Kings management Hearing the eight-year extension for Pierre-Luc Dubois will carry an $8.5M [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3171,"featured_media":138663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,4547,24,4548],"tags":[5746,289],"class_list":["post-138445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jets","category-hockey","category-kings","category-nhl","tag-nhl-trade","tag-pierre-luc-dubois"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}