Pierre-Luc Dubois

627 games, 29 of them last season, and the 75th percentile.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2017-18	CBJ	82	20	28	48	+8	49	6	0	4	165	12.1	16:38
2018-19	CBJ	82	27	34	61	+16	64	2	0	5	174	15.5	17:43
2019-20	CBJ	70	18	31	49	-2	49	1	0	4	158	11.4	17:56
2020-21	CBJ/WPG	46	9	12	21	-8	38	1	0	3	76	11.8	15:02
2021-22	WPG	81	28	32	60	-6	106	15	0	6	233	12.0	18:55
2022-23	WPG	73	27	36	63	+5	77	11	0	1	205	13.2	18:27
2023-24	LAK	82	16	24	40	-9	70	7	0	4	146	11.0	15:42
2024-25	WSH	82	20	46	66	+27	76	4	0	4	142	14.1	17:18
2025-26	WSH	29	5	14	19	-4	19	3	0	0	42	11.9	16:49
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	627	170	257	427	+27	548	50	0	31	1341	12.7	17:17

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

5 goals and 14 assists in 29 games — 19 points, minus-4, at 16:49 a night with 3 power-play goals. 53 games missed.

His 627th career game and his 427th point.

The Finesse Game

65 unblocked attempts, 5 goals, median 23 feet with 48 per cent from inside 20. Good ice, small sample.

14 assists in 29 games is a genuine second-line playmaking rate and the most encouraging line here. 257 career assists.

The Physical Game

6-4 and 220 pounds, and he protects the puck below the goal line as well as any centre on the club. 19 penalty minutes.

The compete has been questioned at 3 of his 4 stops, which is a long enough pattern to note. The size and the hands have never been in doubt.

The Intangibles

51.8 per cent of the expected goals, 69th percentile, against only 47.2 per cent of the shot attempts, 29th, across 393 minutes — a 5-point gap in a small sample, and the fourth-best chance share on the club.

10 points in his last 10.

He is 28, the third pick in 2016, and 53 games missed. When he plays he is a genuine second-line centre; the argument about him has never been about ability.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 393 minutes

Expected goals: 51.8%; 69th pct
Shot attempts: 47.2%; 28th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 19 for, 18 against. Expected: 17.8 and 16.5.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

78th

Numbers

69th

The two rank him within 9 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 77 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 29 games

Top speed: 21.7 mph; 26th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.52 a game
Distance: 2.68 miles a game
Hardest shot: 86.0 mph; 56th pct

A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 9 assists, 13 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 393 minutes at five-on-five

Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.

Why the numbers land there

Five-on-five, 2025-26

The club: WSH took 49.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.8% — 2.3 above the club he did it on.
The role: Third line, 393 minutes at five-on-five — 11th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Tom Wilson	54.5%	47.8%	55.4%
Jakob Chychrun	55.2%	48.6%	49.7%
Aliaksei Protas	61.1%	46.5%	49.2%

54.5% together, 47.8% for him apart and 55.4% for Wilson apart. He was worse away from Wilson, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Wilson did.

Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

65 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 32 feet. 48% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 23% from beyond forty.