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Pierre-Luc Dubois

Sixty-six points and a plus-27, one season after being bought out of a career.

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 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	598	165	243	408	+31	529	47	0	31	1299	12.7	17:18

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 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

20 goals and 46 assists in 82 games — 66 points at 17:18 a night, plus-27, with 4 power-play goals and 4 game-winners on 142 shots, and 76 penalty minutes.

55.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 85th percentile — the best mark of any forward on the roster. His ice went 72-40 against an expectation of 54.52-43.63 — nine goals of scoring missing and four fewer conceded.

The Finesse Game

142 attempts at a median of 18 feet with 53 per cent from inside 20 and 16 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 14.1 per cent. He takes his shots from where a 6-4 centre should.

46 assists is a career high and the best half of him. He protects the puck below the goal line and waits, and the pass out of the corner arrives when a teammate becomes open rather than before. 408 points in 598 games.

The Physical Game

6-4 and 220 and he forechecks with force. He finishes checks, he wins pucks on the wall, and he is very difficult to move off possession.

76 penalty minutes in 82 games, and 529 in 598 career games. He plays with an edge and a share of it crosses the line, and he is not a player anybody enjoys defending.

The Intangibles

Third overall in 2016 and 598 games across four organisations, having forced his way out of two of them and then had the worst season of his career in the third.

He is 27. Los Angeles traded him for a goaltender a year after signing him for eight years, and he responded with 66 points and a plus-27 on a club that finished first in the East. That is the most complete rehabilitation in this edition.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
55.5% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 48.8% for his club in the minutes he sat: +6.7, 96th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“**142 attempts at a median of 18 feet with 53 per cent from inside 20 and 16 per cent from beyond 40**, converting at 14.1 per cent. He takes his shots from where a 6-4 centre should.”
playmakera strength· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“**46 assists is a career high and the best half of him.** He protects the puck below the goal line and waits, and the pass out of the corner arrives when a teammate becomes open rather than before.”
forechecks-aggressivelya strength· first man in, and on the puck
“**6-4 and 220 and he forechecks with force.** He finishes checks, he wins pucks on the wall, and he is very difficult to move off possession.”
wins-the-walla strength· the corners and below the goal line
“He finishes checks, he wins pucks on the wall, and he is very difficult to move off possession.”
hard-to-movea strength· cannot be shifted from where he decides to stand
“He finishes checks, he wins pucks on the wall, and he is very difficult to move off possession.”
nastya strength· hard to play against; the edge is the point
“He plays with an edge and a share of it crosses the line, and he is not a player anybody enjoys defending.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,121 minutes

Expected goals: 55.5%; 92nd pct
Shot attempts: 52.5%; 78th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 72 for, 40 against. Expected: 54.5 and 43.6.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

93rd

Numbers

92nd

The two rank him within 1 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.

Both bars are percentiles among the 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 82 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, 2024-25 · 82 games

Top speed: 22.9 mph; 78th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.74 a game
Distance: 2.79 miles a game
Hardest shot: 92.8 mph; 91st 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 1121 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, 2024-25

The club: WSH took 50.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.5% — 4.7 above the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,121 minutes at five-on-five — 78th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Connor McMichael	55.8%	55.1%	48.5%
Tom Wilson	56.4%	54.5%	47.6%
Aliaksei Protas	56.6%	54.8%	50.6%

55.8% together, 55.1% for him apart and 48.5% for McMichael apart. McMichael was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for McMichael than for him.

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

229 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 22 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 54% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.