Laine under Torts was never going to work.
Dubois is overrated but is a useful player. Probably tops out as a good 2C. His attitude throughout the whole ordeal just left a bad taste in my mouth though. Easy for me to say, I don't play under Torts, but if you want to be a millionaire playing a game you might have to put up with shit sometimes.
Expected a lot more from Dubois to be honest. Winnipeg is an easy team to accumulate points in (as we saw during Laine's stay in there), but Dubois hasn't really been an impact player at all.
Even this version of Laine would probably still be pacing 30 goals and 60 points on the Jets. They are strong on power-play and it's not difficult to get assists off of players like Connor, Ehlers, Scheifele, Wheeler, etc who are strong finishers on their own.
Even ignoring the facts that Puljujarvi plays on McDavid's wing, is having his best season, and that Tkachuk and Dubois are having their worst seasons he still has the worst PPG average among the bunch lol
Puljujarvi: 0.46
Tkachuk: 0.66
Dubois: 0.54
In fairness he was playing a lot in the bottom 6 earlier on in the season. In the last dozen or so games, Puljujärvi has been scoring well. And his ability to defend has obviously been much improved, to the point where McDavid doesn't have to worry much about anything other than his offense, because he has got Pulju doing a lot of the gritty work.
I doubt he will ever be a huge scorer but he might be able to impact the game in other ways, mainly by just having a lot of hustle.