Quebec hockey player Pierre-Luc Dubois expressed caution about his future with the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday as he reviewed the team eliminated from the playoffs two days earlier by the Golden Vegas Knights at the end of the season.

“Honestly I’m still digesting the show and the season, I haven’t had those conversations with my agent yet. It will come soon enough. I hadn’t thought of that,” he replied when asked by local journalists, who didn’t hesitate to mention the constant rumors sending him to the Montreal Canadiens.

“There’s a lot of untruths that people say they’ve heard this and that,” he said. In the end, if I haven’t said or done anything, it’s just speculation. I haven’t made a decision. We just lost two days ago. People have been speculating all year that nothing new is coming out. People speculate all the time, I have no control over that.

The imposing centre-back admitted that being on a one-season deal wasn’t the easiest thing mentally, but he was sticking to the moment.

“My intention was to help this team game after game without thinking too much about the long-term future and what might happen,” he said, adding that the rumors didn’t affect his season or the team’s dressing room too much.

“I don’t think it was a distraction,” he said. I personally haven’t let it become a distraction, I can’t control what people say.”

While he was disappointed with the end of the Jets season, Dubois still saw bright spots for the Manitoba formation’s 2022-2023 campaign and said he appreciates the coaching staff led by the veteran Rick Bowness.

He also didn’t want to attack the coach too much after the latter’s notable elimination following the side’s exit. Bowness said he was very disappointed with the efforts of the Jets’ best players, which inevitably includes Dubois.

The Quebecer admitted he didn’t put on his best game in the fifth and final game of the series.

“It was a tough game, they (the Golden Knights) played well,” he said. I have no problem with what the coach said, we are all entitled to our opinions. I might have preferred to hear it face to face rather than through you, that’s the only thing.”

Dubois also confirmed that he had been plagued by a hip problem since mid-season, which worsened towards the end of the season.