Blackhawks head coach Anders Sorensen informed reporters Tuesday that middle Jason Dickinson is completed for the 12 months after sustaining a wrist harm (by way of Ben Pope of the Chicago Sun-Times). For now, Chicago nonetheless has 12 wholesome forwards, so don’t anticipate a corresponding transfer — a minimum of not instantly.
A few weeks in the past, Dickinson returned to the lineup after a excessive ankle sprain sustained simply earlier than the 4 Nations break held him out of a month’s value of motion. He then damage his wrist whereas combating Blues ahead Jake Neighbours within the first interval of Saturday’s loss and missed Sunday’s recreation towards the Flyers.
He ends his season with 7-9–16 in 59 video games, a far cry from his career-best 2023-24 marketing campaign that earned him a two-year, $8.5M extension. His profession excessive was 22 factors when Chicago acquired the pivot from Vancouver throughout coaching camp in 2022, however he put up back-to-back 30-point campaigns to start his Blackhawks tenure — together with 22 objectives and 13 assists for 35 factors final 12 months whereas taking part in in all 82 video games. It was Dickinson’s first time hitting double-digit objectives in his 10-year profession, and his plus-four ranking on a crew with a -111 aim differential earned him exterior Selke Trophy consideration.
Whereas Dickinson’s taking pictures proportion has remained at a good 12.5%, he’s not producing particular person probabilities close to the speed he did final 12 months. He averaged 0.95 photographs on aim per recreation in 2024-25 in comparison with 1.54 in 2023-24. He’s additionally making an attempt 12% fewer photographs per recreation than final season. A few of that may be attributed to a marginal lower in common ice time (15:42, down from 16:34), but it surely’s nonetheless a disappointing regression.
He stays an efficient checking ahead, successful underneath 49.5% of his attracts whereas contributing 53 blocks and 102 hits. Sadly, his substantial possession impacts from final 12 months additionally nosedived in 2024-25. His anticipated ranking dropped from -4.3 to -10.9 at even energy, whereas his CF% decreased from 46.4 to 43.4. That’s amid a slight general improve in Chicago’s 5v5 possession play, checking in at 44.7% of shot makes an attempt to this point in 2024-25 after ending with 44.3% in 2023-24.
Dickinson had spent the vast majority of his time within the lineup centering a line with Ilya Mikheyev and Teuvo Teräväinen. Captain Nick Foligno assumed that position towards Philly and will achieve this for the rest of the 12 months, though the Hawks have shuffled their strains ceaselessly previously few months.
