A nomad no more, Dubois couldn’t be happier to dig roots in long-term with his new team.\n
You’re sitting in your stall, hanging your head. What happened? Your Winnipeg Jets opened the Stanley Cup playoffs with a win over the Vegas Golden Knights, and then: loss, loss, loss, loss. Season over. Your coach tells reporters how disappointed and disgusted he is with everyone’s performance.You’re sunning on the beach between trips to the rink, wondering what you can buy next with your new $8.5 million salary. You’ve just returned from Australia, where you bonded with your new co-workers.
Dubois arrived in Los Angeles in August, and many of his new teammates were already there. He connected quickly with grizzled defensemen Matt Roy and Drew Doughty and youngsters Quinton Byfield and Jordan Spence. There was a natural, easy bond with fellow center Phillip Danault because of their French Canadian heritage, Dubois explains.
“I feel like I knew the area, and Pat knows a lot about the organization, represents some guys on the team,” Dubois said. “A lot of questions I had, I talked to Gavrikov a bit, who I already played with in Columbus, he helped me out. And all the questions he couldn’t answer, Pat was really helpful on making that decision easy for me.”
“There’s a lot of pressure that comes with that – there’s a lot of passion,” he said. “I think pressure is passion. And passionate fans demand a lot. Maybe for some people it’s harder than others. I never felt it was a burden or it was too much . I think other way around, it’s fun to have those passionate fans. But sometimes it just gets dangerous with it going too far.
So it thus wasn’t the “good riddance” farewell some might have perceived it to be when Dubois departed for L.A. That said: on his new team, he has already achieved a degree of comfort and work-life balance he didn’t know was possible.
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