"It's not too hard to change position, to play those two guys. It didn't take any convincing, really," said Dubois. "I don't know exactly how long I'll be there. If, hopefully, we keep having good games and maybe I stay there for the rest of the year. Who knows? But, I mean, to me it doesn't matter. We have so much depth, so many good players on this team that whether you're left wing, right wing, or centre on any line you're in a good spot."
Thursday's game against the Montreal Canadiens will be Dubois' fourth in a Jets jersey. He's been going over shifts with his teammates on the bench using an iPad for immediate feedback and has ongoing conversations with coaches off the ice as well.
"The offensive zone is more, I think, reads and stuff like just getting comfortable. But the guys have been really great, too, communicating with me on the ice," said Dubois. "I'm feeling more and more comfortable and I'm almost to the point now where it feels natural when I get out there."
The differences between the Jets system and the one Dubois played in Columbus are minor - Maurice pointed to the neutral zone as an example of those differences - and added that the wing is a good spot for Dubois to ease into those responsibilities.
"I had interest in seeing him with those two guys, and you could see it," said Maurice. "They had three shifts in the first period there in Vancouver they got rolling a little bit in the offensive zone and eventually was exactly like the goal they scored. That was there from the start. And they're excited about it."
In Wednesday's final tune-up before the Jets open a four-game home stand, the line rushes looked like this:
Dubois-Scheifele-Wheeler
Connor-Stastny-Ehlers
Copp-Lowry-Appleton
Perreault-Thompson-Lewis
Vesalainen, Harkins
Beaulieu-Morrissey
Forbort-Pionk
Niku-DeMelo
Stanley-Nogier
Even with Dubois on the wing, Maurice feels the depth the Jets have at centre is strong.
"The way I look at those three lines, the way that they're structured is either in pieces of their game or from their past history, I'm excited about what they could be," he said. "I've moved the lines around an awful lot at the start of the year, I like doing that - and the players kind of like the newness of it. As long as you're not taking a guy and you're taking a guy and putting him in a different role, where he gets kind of forgotten, if you would. I like the way it structures out.
"I'm going to move them around again, but I like the way they are right now."
Maurice also sees potential in the trio of Kyle Connor, Paul Stastny, and Nikolaj Ehlers.
As wingers, Connor and Ehlers haven't spent a lot of time together. They're both left-handed, so doing so requires one of them to play their off side. Ehlers has been doing that for a fair chunk of this season.
"I know they like playing with each other," Maurice said. "(Stastny) is almost the perfect fit for those two guys. He's got so much experience and he's at the point in his career where it's about playing right and enjoying the game and talking hockey.
"They get going a few times each game and if you can leave them alone a little bit or long enough, there might be something really good there."
Dubois is motivated to follow up his strong play in the 4-3 overtime win over the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday, especially against the Canadiens - a team he, as a Quebec product, grew up a fan of.
"It's a team that my grandparents loved. When I was a kid and they'd buy pyjamas for me, it was Montreal Canadiens, or pillowcases or anything like that," said Dubois, who has seven points in nine career games against Montreal.
"It's never an easy game to play them and obviously when I play against Montreal, I have friends and family that come so that adds a little special thing to it."
