"After a rocky first two outings, some Wild fans griped the team traded the wrong goalie - Matt Hackett - in last year's Jason Pominville trade. Not the case anymore. The former WHL player of the year and major junior goalie of the year returned to Iowa, got his game together and helped save the Wild's season. Prior to the Olympic break, Kuemper was 8-2-2 in 13 NHL starts since Jan 7. Is he Minnesota's goalie of the future? "Certainly has a chance to be," [Minnesota assistant GM Brent] Flahr said." (Michael Russo, The Hockey News Future Watch 2014, p. 33)

• Selected by Minnesota Wild in sixth round (161st overall) of National Hockey League entry draft, June 27, 2009.
• Signed to amateur tryout contract with Houston Aeros (AHL), March 30, 2010.
• Signed to three-year, entry-level contract with Wild, May 26, 2011.
• Resigned as restricted free agent to two-year contract with Wild, September 18, 2014.
• Re-signed as restricted free agent to one-year contract with Wild, July 5, 2016.
• Signed as unrestricted free agent to one-year, $650,000 contract with Los Angeles Kings, July 1, 2017.
• Traded by Kings to Arizona Coyotes in exchange for F Tobias Rieder and G Scott Wedgewood, February 21, 2018.
• Traded by Coyotes to Colorado Avalanche in exchange for defenseman Conor Timmins, first-round selection in 2022 NHL entry draft, and conditional third-round selection in 2024 NHL entry draft, July 28, 2021.
• Signed as unrestricted free agent to five-year, $26.25 million contract with Washington Capitals, July 13, 2022.

• Member of gold-medal winning Team Canada, IIHF World Championships, June 6, 2021.
• Member of Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche, June 26, 2022.

• After Josh Harding was unable to start due to symptoms related to medication for multiple sclerosis, Darcy made his National Hockey League debut on February 12, 2013, at Rogers Arena in Vancouver. Darcy played well (28 saves) in a 2-1 loss, but still enjoyed the experience. "It's pretty surreal, guys you've been watching as a fan, to be out there playing against them, it's a childhood dream come true," a giddy Kuemper said after the game. "We were stretching there at the red line, and [Roberto Luongo] tapped me on the pads and said, 'Good luck. Play your game,' so that kind of helped calm me down too. That was awesome of him. One guy I've been watching for the past five or six years trying to emulate his game. Yeah, it was pretty cool."

• Injured during morning skate, March 31, 2014. Rob Laurie was signed as the Wild's emergency backup goaltender for the club's road game in Los Angeles that evening.
• Left game with injury, April 30, 2014. Playing in Game Seven of the Minnesota Wild's first round series against Colorado, Kuemper collided behind the net with the Avalanche's Matt Duchene in the second period. Kuemper looked shaky in the third, and was finally pulled for Ilya Bryzgalov at 51:47. Kuemper had missed the final seven regular season games, and the first playoff game, for the Wild with a concussion.
• Left practice with lower-body injury, January 7, 2015.
• Upper-body injury, March 18, 2016. The injury was announced the day after Kuemper completed the Wild's 7-4 loss in New Jersey.
• Left game with eye injury, April 2, 2019. At 3:29 of the third period in Arizona's game against Los Angeles, Kings forward Trevor Lewis gave his club a 2-1 lead with a backhand past Kuemper, but hit the goaltender in the mask on his follow-through. Kuemper was helped off the ice, replaced by Calvin Pickard. Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet said that Lewis' stick got through an opening in Kuemper's mask, and the goalie's vision was blurry afterward. "But he feels okay, and he seemed to be in pretty good spirits?it looked back, but I think he's going to be okay."
• Left game with lower-body injury, December 19, 2019. Kuemper had to be helped from the ice with 3:09 remaining in Arizona's 8-5 loss to Minnesota, ad was replaced by Raanta.
• Left game with apparent lower-body injury, February 24, 2021. Adin Hill replaced Kuemper early in the third period of Arizona's comeback 4-3 shootout win over visiting Anaheim.
• Left game with lower-body injury, March 8, 2021. Antti Raanta replaced Kuemper 2:20 into the third period of Arizona's 3-2 win at Colorado.
• Left game with head injury, January 17, 2022. 9:26 into the second period of Colorado's game against Minnesota, Wild forward Jordan Greenway collied with Kuemper, who was replaced by Pavel Francouz. "[Kuemper] wasn't good enough to come back in the game, so I don't know where he's going to be at," Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said. "We'll see tomorrow how he responds."
• Left game with facial injury, May 7, 2022. With less than one minute remaining in the first period of Colorado's Western Conference first round series game at Nashville, Kuemper left the game after Predators forward Ryan Johanson's stick hit him in the eye through his cage. Pavel Francouz finished the game. "I didn't see what happened initially to Darcy, but I only saw that he was having a lot of pain and I was sure that I'm going in right away," Francouz said. "It's always tough when you see a goalie get hurt, but you have to focus all of your thoughts on the game, on the puck, so that was something I was trying to do. I had huge support from my teammates."
• Left game with upper body injury, May 31, 2022. Pavel Francouz replaced Kuemper at 7:19 of the second period in Colorado's Western Conference Final Game One against Edmonton.
• Left game with head injury, December 3, 2022. Late in the second period of Washington's game at Calgary, Kuemper was elbowed in the head by Calgary's Tyler Toffoli as the Flames forward was skating backwards towards the crease. Kuemper slashed Toffoli, the left the game in favor of Charlie Lindgren at the next whistle (16:09 of the second period).

• Left game to have skate blade replaced, November 22, 2021. Jonas Johansson replaced Kuemper from 33:02 to 35:27 of the Colorado Avalanche's 7-5 win over Ottawa.
• Left game with skate issues, November 24, 2021. Early in Colorado's game against Anaheim, the Ducks' Jamie Drysdale took an initial shot from the point, and as Kuemper tried to move off the post and into position to make the save, he lost the blade of right skate, causing him to lose his balance. Rickard Rakell then flipped the puck back on net, and with Kuemper unable to regain his balance and control the puck, Sonny Milano poked the rebound in off the back of his pad. Jonas Johansson replaced Kuemper briefly in the first period before Kuemper returned, then Johansson played the final two periods in their entirety. "I said on the bench, 'Again?'" Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said. "You rarely even see it happen even once. I just felt like it's [Johansson's] game now and let's find a solution to the skate problem. The holder is what's giving him trouble. It's breaking, the trigger's not holding the blade in, it's just falling out, so the solution is he's going to change holders and put them on the skate he has."
• Left game with pad issue, December 8, 2021. In his first action since suffering an upper-body injury, Kuemper was replaced by Jonas Johansson at 11:52 of the third period so that he could reattach his left leg pad. Kuemper returned at 13:25 and finished the game, a 7-3 Colorado win over the New York Rangers.

• On March 13, 2022, Darcy stopped 46 Calgary Flames shots in a 3-0 win for the Colorado Avalanche.