Pierre-Luc Dubois snaps on Tanner Pearson.

The Winnipeg Jets helped the Vancouver Canucks snap an ugly 5 game losing streak on Friday night and while there are a number of factors that contributed to that fact, none may have played a bigger role than Jets forward Pierre-Luc Dubois.

In the very first period of the game the veteran Jets' centerman appeared to completely lose his cool when he went after Canucks forward Tanner Pearson just a little over halfway through the opening frame. After a scoring chance from the Canucks early on there was a bit of a scrum behind the Winnipeg Jets net, a situation that normally doesn't result in any penalties being called. Players from both teams were getting up in one another's faces when suddenly Dubois appeared to take extra offense to something Pearson said or did, seemingly snapping in the moment entirely.

What had been only mild pushing and shoving a few moments before turned into Dubois focusing on Pearson exclusively, and doing so like some kind of rabid animal. It even appears as though the linesman noticed that these two were getting especially heated and quickly tried to step in between the two men to seperate them, but Dubois was simply having none of it. Dubois continued to swing and go after Pearson well after the linesman had stepped in to intervene and at one point, even with the linesman's elbow and forearm square in his face, Dubois just kept pushing forward.

The most dangerous moment of the interaction however came when the two men and the National Hockey League official all fell to the ice together. You would think that this would have been enough to put an end to the scuffle, especially with the linesman still in between the two men trying to seperate them, but in spite of that Dubois continued to throw punches. To his credit he did a pretty good job of avoiding the linesman with his blows, throwing looping punches in the hopes of connecting on Pearson. Nothing really landed however, given the awkward position he was throwing the blows from.

The officials weren't too happy about the whole affaire, sending Dubois to the box to think about what he had done, and the Canucks scored on the ensuing powerplay. That goal would prove to be a critical one in the Canucks eventual win by a score of 3 - 2.

I don't expect the league will be reviewing this play.