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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
Dube's compete level is really high.
I think that he struggles with the defensive side of the game being on the wing, pretty much the same as Backlund during his wing experiment, and it effects his offensive output as well.
When you are used to the pressure of covering the slot on the defensive end, and then facilitating breakouts to the wing, it's hard to rein things back to work the boards and jump for the first pass out. Even when he's doing the job well, it probably feels like he is not doing enough, and he overcompensates leading to errors.
He doesn't seem to get that 'less is more' on the wing, when he does have that high compete level.
I'm not sure if that makes sense at all.
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And that’s why Sutter didn’t keep him with Monahan and Mangiapane. IIRC Dube moved to centre shortly after that. He’s wing now, but since then Sutter hasn’t wanted to move Mangiapane off of the second line.