Last night, Columbus Blue Jackets rookie Pierre-Luc Dubois stripped the puck from veteran defenseman P.K. Subban and broke loose for a game-tying goal:
Silky steal.
Breakaway burst.
Fantastic finish.#CBJ pic.twitter.com/7iXEpXkynK— ColumbusBlueJackets (@BlueJacketsNHL) November 8, 2017I did not initially plan on writing about PLD for this article, but even before that goal I had come across some information that revealed him as one of the better CBJ forwards this season.
First, let’s look at the fancy stats. PLD’s 5v5 CF% (that’s Corsi For Percentage, i.