Pierre-Luc Dubois ready to feel right at home with the Kings
LA TimesPierre-Luc Dubois told the Winnipeg Jets he would not re-sign with them in free agency, paving the way for his trade to the Kings. Dubois’ contract is worth an average of $8.5 million per year, leaving the Kings so little salary cap room that they’ll likely have to go “light,” as general manager Rob Blake put it, and sometimes carry fewer than 23 players on the roster this season. “He’s been through a lot, I think, in his short life,” said Hall of Famer Luc Robitaille, the Kings’ president. I think he’s learned a lot and he’s probably going to be, or seems to be, appreciative of things you sometimes take for granted.” Pierre-Luc Dubois, checking out the Kings locker room, signed an eight-year contract worth $8.5 million a season. “All my life, in the hockey world you get told where you’re going to go and where you’re going to live and what’s going to happen and as we got closer and closer to free agency, I saw an opportunity to be able to decide where I wanted to go, make a decision for myself and have the power to do that,” he said.
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