The more the days progress, the more we are told that the chances of seeing Pierre-Luc Dubois end up in Montreal with one of these four are great and real. After all, it’s quite rare to see such a persistent rumor.
Obviously, we know that the player will be a restricted free agent at the end of this season. If Kent Hughes absolutely wants him for next year, he will technically have to submit a hostile offer to him unless he goes through a trade.
Otherwise, he waits for the summer of 2024 in the optics when Dubois will be free as the air. But that’s if the Quebecer decides to sign for a single season in order to achieve full autonomy next year. And the problem…
It’s that the Jets won’t want to lose him for nothing. They will have to trade him at some point, and Pierre LeBrun believes that moment might arrive as soon as this summer.
A very busy deadline period might have been even more chaotic given some of the trade talks involving other players who didn’t move. But what regarding this summer? From Erik Karlsson to J.T. Miller to others, a look ahead:
My latest for @TheAthleticNHL ⤵️https://t.co/SAfUgULkFe— Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) March 8, 2023
We talk a lot regarding the importance of the arrival of Dubois within the organization of the Montreal Canadiens, but we talk little regarding the importance of seeing him leave Winnipeg. I explain.
If the Jets really decide to trade him this summer, the club will suffer because Dubois plays a crucial role in the attack in Winnipeg. And if the Jets decide to trade one of their best forwards, what message does that send to the rest of the group who are there to compete?
What will Mark Scheifele and Connor Hellebuyck say to each other, two of the pillars of the formation who will be as free as air in the summer of 2024? The Jets don’t really have the luxury of losing the services of Dubois, Scheifele AND Hellebuyck in the space of a year, we agree on that point.
Basically, the future of the Jets (in the short term) may depend on Pierre-Luc Dubois if we take a step back and look at the situation properly.
Like many, I can’t wait for the file to be closed because it goes without saying that we talk a lot regarding Dubois in Montreal even if he does not wear the uniform of the Canadiens.
When will the file be closed? There it is, the question.
However, if a club other than CH acquires him this summer, he will try to sign Dubois in the long term too…
It is therefore a race to obtain his services, basically.
A lot of
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– It’s called being part of the elite.
Dual Threats, Scoring and Playmaking.
Four players have 35 goals, 35 assists, 135 shots from the slot, 135 passes into the slot. Two of them will be on the ice tonight in Boston.
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– 12 years old already!
12-years-ago Zdeno Chara drove Max Pacioretty’s head into the stanchion between the benches which end up giving max a concussion & fractured vertebrae.
This hit would cause massive outrage in MTL with Chara not getting suspended.
With hindsight should he have been suspended? pic.twitter.com/gWXEoxj6MT
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– The message is simple.
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