{"id":269362,"date":"2025-11-03T19:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/269362\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T19:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:03:07","slug":"pierre-luc-dubois-will-miss-an-extended-period-of-time-due-to-his-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/269362\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre-Luc Dubois will miss an \u2018extended period of time\u2019 due to his lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Capitals will be without shutdown centerman Pierre-Luc Dubois indefinitely due to a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, he\u2019s going to be out for an extended period of time,\u201d Carbery said after practice Monday.<\/p>\n

The Capitals do not yet know if Dubois will require surgery.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still need to gather more information at this point,\u201d Carbery said, \u201cso I can\u2019t really disclose anything more than that he\u2019s going to be out for an extended period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dubois suffered his injury against the New York Islanders on Friday<\/a>, where his knee appeared to buckle during a defensive-zone faceoff. He needed assistance to get off the ice and did not return for the rest of the 3-1 loss. He missed the team\u2019s following game against the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Dubois has played in just six of the Capitals\u2019 12 games this fall. Carbery told reporters Monday that his current ailment is \u201cunrelated\u201d to the lower-body injury that cost him five games earlier in the season<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the six games he has played this year, Dubois has yet to record a point and is averaging 15:32 of time on ice per game.<\/p>\n

Carbery regularly deploys the Quebec-born forward as the Capitals\u2019 primary shutdown center, matching him up with the opposition\u2019s top line. While playing the role last season, Dubois also recorded a career high of 66 points (20g, 46a) in 82 games.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, it\u2019s a huge hole,\u201d Carbery said. \u201cArguably, right up there last year with one of our most valuable players and most important players on our roster. I\u2019m not going to sit here and sugarcoat it and say that you can replace him at this point in the year, but you still can be a good hockey team and win a lot of hockey games with injuries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s part of the attrition that you need to be able to handle in this league. He\u2019s out now, and now we\u2019ll need other players to step up. We\u2019ll need the entire group to do a little bit more, including the coaching staff. That\u2019s the way that we\u2019ll look at it, and that\u2019s how we\u2019ll approach it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Capitals have been dominant at five-on-five with Dubois on the ice since he arrived in DC ahead of the start of last season. During his minutes, the team has seen 52.9 percent of shot attempts, 54.7 percent of expected goals, 56.1 percent of scoring chances, and 56.3 percent of high-danger chances.<\/p>\n

With Dubois out, the Capitals are likely to set up with some combination of Dylan Strome, Connor McMichael, Nic Dowd, Hendrix Lapierre, Justin Sourdif, and Spencer Smallman down the middle. McMichael skated as the second-line center at practice again, lining up between Aliaksei Protas and Tom Wilson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals will be without shutdown centerman Pierre-Luc Dubois indefinitely due to a lower-body injury. \u201cYeah, he\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-269362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}