{"id":101188,"date":"2021-02-17T17:14:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T22:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=101188"},"modified":"2021-02-17T17:16:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T22:16:47","slug":"jets-pierre-luc-dubois-to-injured-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/02\/17\/jets-pierre-luc-dubois-to-injured-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets Place Pierre-Luc Dubois on Injured Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/jets\/\" target=\"_self\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> have placed forward <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/duboipi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pierre-Luc Dubois<\/a><\/strong> on their injured reserve list. He will be unavailable until Friday at the earliest. Dubois last played in the team&#8217;s win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/senators\/\" target=\"_self\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> on February 11th. Sportsnet provided the update Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Jets have retroactively placed forward Pierre-Luc Dubois on IR due to a lower-body injury and he is eligible to return as early as Friday.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4WAugIkImG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/4WAugIkImG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/1362142601034551300?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Jets Place Pierre-Luc Dubois on Injured Reserve<\/h2>\n<p>Dubois has not had the season he envisioned through the first weeks of 2020-21. He has just one goal in seven games while battling injuries and an early trade from the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/bluejackets\/\" target=\"_self\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> to Winnipeg. The unevenness of the season has resulted in some odd numbers. Dubois posted a 51.5 percent Corsi For and 5.9 relative Corsi prior to the trade, but a 31.6 percent Corsi For with a -11.1 relative score afterwards. There is simply too little data to evaluate what the Quebec native will do when he returns to the ice.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jackets originally drafted Dubois third overall in the 2016 Draft and watched as he immediately became a key part of the team&#8217;s success. He scored 20 goals and 48 points in 82 games as a rookie while receiving votes for the Calder Trophy in 2017-18. Production ballooned to 27 goals and 61 points in 2018-19 at just 20-years-old. However, potential conflicts with Columbus head coach John Tortorella resulted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/01\/23\/pierre-luc-dubois-patrik-laine-trade\/\" target=\"_self\">trade<\/a> earlier this year. Columbus swapped Dubois for Jets forwards <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rosloja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack Roslovic<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lainepa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrik Laine<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>How Winnipeg Replaces Dubois<\/h3>\n<p>The Jets will roll with a group similar to the one that took the ice in their last two games. Several players have moved up on line on the depth chart with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/vesalkr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kristian Vesalainen<\/a><\/strong> grabbing some minutes on the fourth line. It&#8217;s possible that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gustada01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Gustafsson<\/a><\/strong> makes an appearance as well. There isn&#8217;t much the team needs to do to cover up Dubois&#8217; absence until it is clear if he can return Friday. Winnipeg has been very good without him as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/scheima01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Scheifele<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/ehlerni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikolaj Ehlers<\/a><\/strong> are among the league-leaders in scoring. Adding the injured skater only makes a dangerous team stronger.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"c_a6Je8rRxd-T4ynsVlz6w\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1231084293\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'c_a6Je8rRxd-T4ynsVlz6w',sig:'elBWgYwIZ1v0wUNUJye_oBvHfF0Q_RepHpI1HMYcsTg=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1231084293',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Winnipeg Jets have placed forward Pierre-Luc Dubois on their injured reserve list. He will be unavailable until Friday at the earliest. Dubois last played in the team&#8217;s win over the Ottawa Senators on February 11th. Sportsnet provided the update Wednesday afternoon. The Jets have retroactively placed forward Pierre-Luc Dubois on IR due to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":101191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4547,34,4548,33],"tags":[5738,1576,933,955],"class_list":["post-101188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","category-jets","tag-hockey-news","tag-injury","tag-kristian-vesalainen","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Gabriel Foley","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}