Blackhawks head coach Anders Sorensen instructed reporters Tuesday that middle Jason Dickinson is completed for the yr after sustaining a wrist damage (by way of Ben Pope of the Chicago Sun-Times). For now, Chicago nonetheless has 12 wholesome forwards, so don’t count on 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 price of motion. He then damage his wrist whereas preventing Blues ahead Jake Neighbours within the first interval of Saturday’s loss and missed Sunday’s recreation in opposition to 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 targets and 13 assists for 35 factors final yr whereas enjoying in all 82 video games. It was Dickinson’s first time hitting double-digit targets in his 10-year profession, and his plus-four score on a staff with a -111 purpose differential earned him exterior Selke Trophy consideration.
Whereas Dickinson’s capturing proportion has remained at a decent 12.5%, he’s not producing particular person possibilities close to the speed he did final yr. He averaged 0.95 pictures on purpose per recreation in 2024-25 in comparison with 1.54 in 2023-24. He’s additionally making an attempt 12% fewer pictures 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), nevertheless it’s nonetheless a disappointing regression.
He stays an efficient checking ahead, successful below 49.5% of his attracts whereas contributing 53 blocks and 102 hits. Sadly, his substantial possession impacts from final yr additionally nosedived in 2024-25. His anticipated score 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 total enhance 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 nearly all of his time within the lineup centering a line with Ilya Mikheyev and Teuvo Teräväinen. Captain Nick Foligno assumed that function in opposition to Philly and will achieve this for the rest of the yr, though the Hawks have shuffled their strains steadily up to now few months.
