{"id":879178,"date":"2026-10-12T02:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T02:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/879178\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T02:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T02:12:09","slug":"pierre-luc-dubois-to-miss-capitals-game-against-kraken-due-to-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/879178\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre-Luc Dubois to miss Capitals\u2019 game against Kraken due to illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With four points in four games, <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/team\/washington-capitals\/\" class=\"team\" title=\"View Washington Capitals news and roster\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Capitals<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/player\/pierre-luc-dubois\/\" class=\"player\" title=\"View Pierre-Luc Dubois&#039;s stats, bio, and status\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pierre-Luc Dubois<\/a> has had a brilliant start to the season. But the team will be without him in <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2026\/10\/11\/capitals-kraken-live-updates-2026-27-game-5\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday\u2019s match against the Seattle Kraken<\/a>. Dubois, the team reports, is out with an illness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/katieEadler\/status\/2108934542681657587\" rel=\"nofollow\">As reported by RMNB\u2019s Katie Adler<\/a>, Dubois missed practice on Saturday. For Sunday evening\u2019s game, <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/player\/ethen-frank\/\" class=\"player\" title=\"View Ethen Frank&#039;s stats, bio, and status\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethen Frank<\/a> will suit up for his first game of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Frank has big shoes to fill. Dubois\u2019 line with <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/player\/alex-tuch\/\" class=\"player\" title=\"View Alex Tuch&#039;s stats, bio, and status\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Tuch<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/player\/tom-wilson\/\" class=\"player\" title=\"View Tom Wilson&#039;s stats, bio, and status\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Wilson<\/a> has been, far and away, Washington\u2019s best so far, controlling 58 percent of expected goals and outscored opponents 3 to 0. It\u2019s been a return to form for Dubois, who missed 53 games following an abdomen surgery last season.<\/p>\n<p>Dubois earned two assists in the season opener, on each of Tuch\u2019s goals, then Dubois and Wilson assisted on one another\u2019s goals in the win over Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought they were outstanding tonight right from their first shift,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2026\/10\/08\/alex-tuch-pierre-luc-dubois-tom-wilson-line-goals-sidney-crosby\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spencer Carbery said after the Pittsburgh<\/a>. \u201cJust did such a good job of creating turnovers on the forecheck, putting their D under pressure, holding onto pucks, had multiple long O-Zone shifts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are no other reported illnesses on the team right now, but it\u2019s something to watch. There\u2019s something going around. This humble sportswriter can disclose his household has been impacted as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With four points in four games, Washington Capitals forward Pierre-Luc Dubois has had a brilliant start to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-879178","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\/879178","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=879178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}