Posts About "Pierre-Luc Dubois"
Blue Jackets Offseason Work Far From Over
October 8th, 2020 The 2020 NHL Draft has come and gone. For the Columbus Blue Jackets, they were right in the middle of all the action. Their draft day started with a big bang. Josh Anderson and the Blue Jackets were unable to reach an agreement. Therefore he was traded to the Montreal Canadiens for center Max Domi and a third-round pick in this...
Making Sense of Recent Blue Jackets' Rumors
October 4th, 2020 The NHL Draft is coming quickly. As of this writing, there are just over 48 hours to go until the New York Rangers are on the clock. For the Columbus Blue Jackets, there seems to be a belief that they are looking to do something big. As multiple reporters have pointed out, they will be an interesting team to watch this week and...
8 Blue Jackets All-Time Points-Per-Game Leaders
September 15th, 2020 To win in today’s NHL, a team needs to score goals. Not only does a team need players who shoot, it needs the playmakers who get the puck to the shooter. Consider this: in the modern history of the NHL, only twice has a player scored three goals in a game without any assists on those goals. One of those unassisted hat tricks was by...
Blue Jackets' Potential Trade Partners: Montreal Canadiens
September 2nd, 2020 Welcome to September. Seriously, that's what month it is? It's crazy what a worldwide pandemic will do to your sense of time. This would be the time of season we are watching the various prospects' tournaments while gearing up for the start of training camp. Instead, we have the playoffs ongoing for some and the offseason going for...
QMJHL Alumni Shine in the Playoffs
September 1st, 2020 The QMJHL has always been known as a scorer's league, and some of their alumni are bringing those skills to the biggest stages in Edmonton and Toronto. Nathan MacKinnon is one of the most accomplished QMJHL graduates, and he has become one of the top players in the NHL. His dominance is on full display in Edmonton, as he has...
Blue Jackets' RFA Pierre-Luc Dubois Dominates In Playoff Run
August 26th, 2020 The Columbus Blue Jackets had an impressive playoff showing in 2020, despite technically bowing out in the first round. They dispatched an offensively loaded Toronto Maple Leafs team in the play-ins and forced the best out of the Stanley Cup favorite Tampa Bay Lightning in their five-game series before ultimately losing out. They were...
Realistic Blue Jackets Expectations For the Offseason
August 24th, 2020 Welcome to Part 2 of our season-ending series on the Columbus Blue Jackets. In case you missed part one, we discussed five costly mistakes that sent the team out of the playoffs. We now turn our attention to the offseason. Seriously, who knows how this offseason is going to turn out? While the playoffs in the bubble are running...
Blue Jackets Qualifying Round Stars - Atkinson, Dubois, Foudy & Korpisalo
August 10th, 2020 On Oct. 21, 2019, after a 4-3 OT win over the Toronto Maple Leafs, Columbus Blue Jackets head coach John Tortorella told reporters: "We're supposed to suck this year." This was in response to many pundits who wrote them off as a lost cause after the departure of Artemi Panarin, Sergei Bobrovsky, and Matt Duchene in the...
Blue Jackets Game 3 Notes: Great Comeback, Not So Great Special Teams
August 7th, 2020 Shades of last year’s Game 1 vs. the Tampa Bay Lightning! Last night the Columbus Blue Jackets were down 3-0 (to the Toronto Maple Leafs this time) and finished with four straight goals, the last in OT. Pierre-Luc Dubois had a hat trick, only his second in his three-year NHL career. Columbus Blue Jackets' Pierre-Luc Dubois ...
5 Takeaways From Maple Leafs' Game 3 Collapse
August 7th, 2020 Another year and another Toronto Maple Leafs’ playoff collapse. The only positive to come from this one is the fact that it wasn’t in an elimination game and the Maple Leafs have less than 24 hours before they can try to put this one behind them. That said, it will come down to the Maple Leafs stringing together two straight wins...
Blue Jackets' Dubois Still Learning Playoff Hockey
August 6th, 2020 Pierre-Luc Dubois looks frustrated. Whether it's on the bench in a heated exchange with head coach John Tortorella or it's an unnecessary cross-check late in the game, Dubois has lost his cool on a couple of occasions early in the Blue Jackets' series against the Toronto Maple Leafs. It hasn't helped that Auston Matthews has...
Blue Jackets Mentality Major Key to Maple Leafs Series
July 29th, 2020 Head coach John Tortorella has always been a big fan of the mental side of hockey. On Wednesday, Tortorella admitted that the Blue Jackets have started making preparations on their mentality leading into their series against the Toronto Maple Leafs. It started back at the beginning of training camp 2.0. The Blue Jackets were entering...
Blue Jackets Still In Running For Alexis LaFreniere
June 28th, 2020 Yeah I can't believe it either. In a major upset Friday night, "Team E" won the right to draft first overall at the 2020 NHL Draft. Because the draft lottery happened before the play-in round, special arrangements had to be made in the event a placeholder team won one of the three lotteries. Guess tanking doesn't work, does...
