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Originally Posted by dustygoon
What's the point of Dube on the first line? I don't get this stuff. I don't see what the team sees in him.
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Because he's a good player who's on pace for 20g? It's not all about putting the most talented players together as much as we may want it to be. This isn't just a Flames thing either, lots of good teams have random 2/3rd line wingers playing with more talented players because they bring a missing element to the line.
Dube brings a lot of speed, grit and puck retrieval skills that benefit Toffoli and Lindholm greatly. Pelletier may be the same in terms of what he can eventually bring to Kadri and Huberdeau.
If he really brings it for a couple of games I could certainly see Sutter making the switch and bumping Lucic back to the 4th line where he belongs. Hopefully Pelletier gets more than just 8 minutes a game to showcase himself.