Dillon Dube will be key to Canada’s offence – once he’s 100 per cent
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — Fans fell silent and teammates stopped what they were doing as Dillon Dube, wearing a yellow no-contact jersey, slid on his back and crashed into the endboards with a loud bang.
But Dube popped back up and skated to the back of the drill line with a smile on his face, putting a mishap at Tuesday’s Hockey Canada junior selection camp practice behind him.
“I felt like with the yellow jersey everyone was too nervous to hit me, but then I tripped on some sticks and go into the endboards,” said Dube, who has been playing with a sore shoulder the past two weeks for the Western Hockey League’s Kelowna Rockets. “That happens, that’s the way it goes, and nothing came of it.”
Dube is one of seven players returning from the 2017 silver-medal world junior team participating at the selection camp at Meridian Centre this week. After his spill, Dube sat out a practice Wednesday followed by a game against an all-star team of players from Canadian universities that the juniors lost 3-0.