{"id":281586,"date":"2025-11-09T16:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T16:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/281586\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T16:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T16:39:10","slug":"pierre-luc-dubois-to-miss-next-3-to-4-months-after-undergoing-surgery-on-abdominal-and-adductor-muscles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/281586\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre-Luc Dubois to miss next 3 to 4 months after undergoing surgery on abdominal and adductor muscles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/file-pierre-luc-dubois-aland-5428.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Pierre-Luc Dubois\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udcf8: Alan Dobbins\/RMNB\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Capitals will be without Pierre-Luc Dubois for the next three to four months.<\/p>\n<p>Dubois underwent surgery to address injuries to his abdominal and adductor muscles on Friday, November 7. The Capitals announced the news on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Caps?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Caps<\/a> forward Pierre-Luc Dubois underwent surgery on Friday, November 7, to address injuries to his\u00a0abdominal and adductor muscles.\u00a0Due to the nature of the procedure, Dubois is expected to miss 3-4 months.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Capitals PR (@CapitalsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CapitalsPR\/status\/1987543688042406269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaps forward Pierre-Luc Dubois underwent surgery on Friday, November 7, to address injuries to his abdominal and adductor muscles,\u201d the team tweeted. \u201cDue to the nature of the procedure, Dubois is expected to miss 3-4 months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dubois\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/10\/31\/pierre-luc-dubois-injury-capitals-islanders-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suffered his injury against the New York Islanders on October 31<\/a>, staying down on the ice after a defensive-zone faceoff. He needed assistance to get back to the club\u2019s locker room and has not skated with his teammates since.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old center has played in just six of the Capitals\u2019 15 games this fall, recording zero points and averaging 15:32 of time on ice per game. He recorded a career high 66 points (20g, 46a) with the Caps last year, playing in all 82 games.<\/p>\n<p>The 3-4 month timeline puts Dubois on schedule for a return in either March or April, after the league breaks for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>With Dubois out, the Capitals have played with Connor McMichael at second-line center. Head coach Spencer Carbery <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/11\/09\/pierre-luc-dubois-injury-middle-six-challenge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spoke after Saturday night\u2019s loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> about how the team is still struggling to find the right combinations in their middle-six forward group with Dubois unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>The Capitals are 1-2-1 since Dubois suffered his injury.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: Alan Dobbins\/RMNB The Washington Capitals will be without Pierre-Luc Dubois for the next three to four months.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-281586","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\/281586","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=281586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}