If one single beacon of warm yellow light managed to slash through the ashes of the Calgary Flames’ first-round loss to the Dallas Stars, it was Dillon Dube. The kid rocked.
He scored, he hit, he whizzed all over the ice like something feral. Apparently lofting saucer passes through the doorways of your father’s warehouse does wonders as a training method—Dube spent an entire pandemic-induced pause doing just that, and he resurfaced from the shutdown an absolute force.
Mikael Backlund enters the offensive zone, passes to Milan Lucic, who passes to Dillon Dube, who one-times the puck past Anton Khudobin to get the #Flames ahead of the #Stars 2-1!