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New Avalanche goalie Darcy Kuemper, 31, is simply a 10-year nonrecreational from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He stands 6-foot-5, 215 pounds, and volition participate the past twelvemonth of his declaration successful 2021-20, with a $5.5 cardinal wage and $4.5 cardinal headdress deed (Arizona retains $1 cardinal headdress hit).
— Kuemper played major-junior for the Red Deer Rebels of the Western Hockey League and became a 2009 sixth-round draught prime (161st overall) of the Minnesota Wild.
— He bounced backmost and distant from the Wild and its AHL affiliate from 2010 to 2015, past became an NHL regular with Minnesota successful 2015-16.
— He signed a one-year declaration arsenic a escaped cause with the Los Angeles Kings connected July 1, 2017, but played conscionable 19 games with the Kings.
— He was traded to Arizona connected Feb. 21 , 2018, for guardant Tobias Rieder and goalie Scott Wedgewood.
— Kuemper had 3 consecutive outstanding seasons with the Coyotes from 2018 to 2020.
— He backstopped Canada to the golden medal astatine the 2021 World Championship successful June, finishing 5-2-1 with a 2.17 GAA and .916 SP.
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