Pierre-Luc Dubois is only 25, but the center is already on his third NHL team. The Kings hope he'll help make them a serious Stanley Cup contender.
and Dubois, who collected career-best totals in assists and points last season in 73 games.
“He’s been through a lot, I think, in his short life,” said Hall of Famer Luc Robitaille, the Kings’ president. “For me, when I was a player, I started with the Kings and by the time I was 25, I was still with the Kings. The question becomes why did Dubois leave Winnipeg to take his talents to the South Bay? And before that, why did he say goodbye, Columbus?
Winnipeg was different because he was approaching free agency, and he gave the Jets advance notice he wouldn’t re-sign. “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. “And that was something that really interested me.”The L.A.
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