{"id":272385,"date":"2025-11-09T16:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T16:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/272385\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T16:12:08","slug":"dubois-out-3-4-months-for-capitals-after-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/272385\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubois out 3-4 months for Capitals after surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/pierre-luc-dubois-8479400\" title=\"Pierre-Luc Dubois\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pierre-Luc Dubois<\/a> is out 3-4 months after he had surgery Friday to address injuries to his abdominal and adductor muscles, the Washington Capitals announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old forward returned from injury for three games but was injured again during the first period of a 3-1 loss to the New York Islanders on Oct. 31. He did not have a point in six games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, we do not think it&#8217;s going to be season-ending, just an extended period of time at this point,&#8221; Capitals coach Spencer Carbery said on Nov. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Dubois had 66 points (20 goals, 46 assists) in 82 games last season, his first with Washington after being traded by the Los Angeles Kings for goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/darcy-kuemper-8475311\" title=\"Darcy Kuemper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darcy Kuemper<\/a> on June 19, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 3 pick by the Columbus Blue Jackets at the 2016 NHL Draft, Dubois has 408 points (165 goals, 243 assists) in 604 regular-season games with the Blue Jackets, Winnipeg Jets, Kings and Capitals, and 30 points (11 goals, 19 assists) in 53 Stanley Cup Playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>Washington (7-7-1) visits the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pierre-Luc Dubois is out 3-4 months after he had surgery Friday to address injuries to his abdominal and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-272385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}