Blackhawks head coach Anders Sorensen advised reporters Tuesday that middle Jason Dickinson is finished for the 12 months 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 — at the least 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 harm his wrist whereas preventing 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 enjoying in all 82 video games. It was Dickinson’s first time hitting double-digit objectives in his 10-year profession, and his plus-four score on a staff with a -111 objective differential earned him outdoors Selke Trophy consideration.
Whereas Dickinson’s taking pictures share has remained at a decent 12.5%, he’s not producing particular person possibilities close to the speed he did final 12 months. He averaged 0.95 photographs on objective per recreation in 2024-25 in comparison with 1.54 in 2023-24. He’s additionally trying 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), nevertheless it’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 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 improve in Chicago’s 5v5 possession play, checking in at 44.7% of shot makes an attempt to date 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 function towards Philly and will achieve this for the rest of the 12 months, though the Hawks have shuffled their strains steadily prior to now few months.
