Pierre-Luc Dubois was traded to the Washington Capitals and recorded a career-high 66 points (20 goals, 46 assists) during the 2024-25 season. Three of those points were assists on Alex Ovechkin goals, including assists on milestone tallies and on Ovechkin’s 44th goal of the campaign, which reached 897 career goals. Dubois credits his resurgence to a team approach that encouraged him to play his own style and offered a clear opportunity to succeed. Head coach Spencer Carbery praised Dubois’s consistent, stabilizing play at center, and teammates offered strong public support.
"I could probably write a book about last year's season," he told TSN Radio 690 Montreal on August 21. "I could probably write a book about just [Alex Ovechkin] last year, and then I could write a second book about the season, about everything."
"The first phone calls I had, [they] really treated [me] like they really wanted me to succeed, were going to give me a chance to succeed," Dubois said. "And then after that, just coming here, they just said, 'Just be yourself, you don't need to do more. You don't need to do less. Be yourself. We'll give you a chance.'"
"I was confident that he was going to be a good player for us, but you never know," Carbery said in May. "The level that he played at consistently night to night was tremendous. Coming in and being able to play the center ice position and really stabilizing a matchup and all the different things that he provided our lineup up front was significant."
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