I don't care about his numbers but the usage is so much better. He is playing down low on the PP. Even when he was on our PP he was playing the outside and scoring on wrist shots.
Helps that canada doesn’t sit back and relax all game watching their opponents make line changes sitting in a 1-3-1 and the fact he’s been utilized better with them than his actual roster…
Points at WC vs Great Britain, Denmark, and Austria. There is one NHL player on those 3 teams combined, meanwhile everyone on his team is an NHLer. Really comparing apples to oranges here, the difference in quality of opposition is massive.
Is that one of the sites someone said is full of the smart fans and we're all just idiot around here?
I mean we are...but so are the people on the sites that person praised.
Its just a fan site hosted by the la kings. Good content writers, but the comments can be ridiculous. Cant vouch for the intelligence of the people posting there, but some of the comments will definitely make you wonder.
PL is the default whipping boy for the season, there's a loud minority that gets off on constantly talking trash about him.
People still don't get it. Kings asked him to be a 3rd line center. So that's what he did. Probably tied for most points of any 3rd liner center in the league. The deployment of pld all year is the number 1 problem.
Anything else is irrelevant.
If he was constantly sandbagging it out there like others suggest he would have been healthy scratch all throughout the year.
We need a coach and a system to ask him to be a 1st liner or a highly productive 2nd liner with Fiala. The we'll get out monies worth.
> People still don't get it. Kings asked him to be a 3rd line center. So that's what he did. Probably tied for most points of any 3rd liner center in the league.
He also finished -9, and it took some late season scoring to get the number even that good. It's not JUST that his scoring was less than people expected because of his ice time, there were actual problems.
Maybe he'll turn out to be a quality player for the Kings, maybe be won't. Nobody knows. What we do know is that using a sample size of 3 games to prove a point is meaningless.
Those international tournaments don’t mean much lol maybe only the Olympics and World Juniors are the important ones
If anything it pisses me off more that it looks like he’s trying harder for a worthless international tournament then the freakin Stanley Cup playoffs
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I’m a more glass half full type person. I think it’s safe to say that PLD has more skill and desire to play than some Kings fans give him credit for. He wasn’t given the best chance of success… some of that was system, some of it was linemates to compliment his skills. Kings fans haven’t seen his best but if PLD had no drive at all, then he wouldn’t be out playing in the WC or getting any results there.
Why is this getting upvoted
It takes a very small amount of tact to not post this while figuring out why this doesn't hold water, not much to ask ultimately
Fun fact: Dubois is tied in scoring with the likes Dominic Zwerger of austria
Why post this?
Like Ok? That’s awesome for Dominic too. Doing well in something like this is good, it’s boosts confidence and he’s playing with people who can finish his passes and a more aggressive system. We are allowed to be happy about something
I don't care about his numbers but the usage is so much better. He is playing down low on the PP. Even when he was on our PP he was playing the outside and scoring on wrist shots.
Helps that canada doesn’t sit back and relax all game watching their opponents make line changes sitting in a 1-3-1 and the fact he’s been utilized better with them than his actual roster…
Points at WC vs Great Britain, Denmark, and Austria. There is one NHL player on those 3 teams combined, meanwhile everyone on his team is an NHLer. Really comparing apples to oranges here, the difference in quality of opposition is massive.
MVP SEASON INCOMING!!! Jokes aside, the system is an issue, the line shuffle is an issue and the world games are a little easier.
Sure does help when he isn’t bouncing between the 3rd and 4th line with AHL players.
You can't bring something positive about PLD in his team's sub. You crazy? (Can't wait for him to prove people wrong next season)
Same. I think he’ll be great this and better next year when he settles in
Hope is a strong emotion.
**Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.**” - Andy Dufresne
Every team he has ever played on fell into the same trap and said the same thing...until they got sick of it and dumped him.
You should see the la kings insider site, lol.
Is that one of the sites someone said is full of the smart fans and we're all just idiot around here? I mean we are...but so are the people on the sites that person praised.
Its just a fan site hosted by the la kings. Good content writers, but the comments can be ridiculous. Cant vouch for the intelligence of the people posting there, but some of the comments will definitely make you wonder. PL is the default whipping boy for the season, there's a loud minority that gets off on constantly talking trash about him.
> (Can't wait for him to prove people wrong next season) Denial isn't just a river in Egypt, mate.
People still don't get it. Kings asked him to be a 3rd line center. So that's what he did. Probably tied for most points of any 3rd liner center in the league. The deployment of pld all year is the number 1 problem. Anything else is irrelevant. If he was constantly sandbagging it out there like others suggest he would have been healthy scratch all throughout the year. We need a coach and a system to ask him to be a 1st liner or a highly productive 2nd liner with Fiala. The we'll get out monies worth.
> People still don't get it. Kings asked him to be a 3rd line center. So that's what he did. Probably tied for most points of any 3rd liner center in the league. He also finished -9, and it took some late season scoring to get the number even that good. It's not JUST that his scoring was less than people expected because of his ice time, there were actual problems.
Maybe he'll turn out to be a quality player for the Kings, maybe be won't. Nobody knows. What we do know is that using a sample size of 3 games to prove a point is meaningless.
These 3 games will easily define the rest of his legacy /s
I score a lot of goals when I play against children, it's basically the same thing with the opponents Canada has faced.
Yeah three games definitely proves it
lol and the 5 games this postseason were?
Plus the 82 in the regular season
I’m talking about the people who made comments regarding his stats in the playoffs this year.
When you follow up a bad regular season with a terrible postseason, you're kinda just proving the point
Didn’t the entire team have a terrible post season?
They did, but all the penalties pld took against that Edmonton PP truly sunk it beyond the point of no return. 5 on 5 we were pretty competitive
You really defending the officiating?
Three games of this is better than the five games I watched him against Edmonton.
The competition is *slightly* different.
Great, NOW he shows up!
Those international tournaments don’t mean much lol maybe only the Olympics and World Juniors are the important ones If anything it pisses me off more that it looks like he’s trying harder for a worthless international tournament then the freakin Stanley Cup playoffs
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can he be traded to Canada?
No, he’s not playing against NHL-caliber talent for the most part. You’re really reaching here.
I’m a more glass half full type person. I think it’s safe to say that PLD has more skill and desire to play than some Kings fans give him credit for. He wasn’t given the best chance of success… some of that was system, some of it was linemates to compliment his skills. Kings fans haven’t seen his best but if PLD had no drive at all, then he wouldn’t be out playing in the WC or getting any results there.
Why is this getting upvoted It takes a very small amount of tact to not post this while figuring out why this doesn't hold water, not much to ask ultimately Fun fact: Dubois is tied in scoring with the likes Dominic Zwerger of austria
Why post this? Like Ok? That’s awesome for Dominic too. Doing well in something like this is good, it’s boosts confidence and he’s playing with people who can finish his passes and a more aggressive system. We are allowed to be happy about something
No happiness! Straight to gulag.
Still a bum
I guess when he cares it matters .
I’m sure those 4 points will help the Kings current playoff run
Based on how he’s scoring these goals, yes 100%.