BRANDON DUBINSKY - Center - 33 - $5.85MM Cap Hit - 2021-2022
LAST UPDATED 7/28/19
While Brandon Dubinsky has been a staple down the middle for the Jackets since he was acquired in exchange for franchise icon Rick Nash, he has regressed to the point of only being a marginal NHL player at this point in his career. Whereas Dubinsky could previously be counted on for 82 games of shutdown hockey along with 40-50 points of production, those days are over. At 33 years of age, his lack of foot speed has caught up to him, and as he's gotten older he's become less defensively sharp and his offensive instincts have similarly deteriorated. Now, when he does manage to stay healthy enough to play, he's only good for just above 10 points of production, and his abilities as a shutdown center are mostly gone. He simply is not fast enough or strong enough to match up with top opposing forwards, and his abilities as a penalty killer are also gone. Isolated impact metrics measure Dubinsky as a net negative impact on the penalty kill, a massive departure from where he once was. Given his lofty cap hit and there still being some term on his contract, Dubinsky is in a sort of limbo. He's no longer good enough to be anything other than a bad 4C or a mediocre 13th forward, but more realistically his abilities as an NHL player have regressed so far that as a GM I would struggle to find reasons to even keep him on my NHL roster. Maybe once he has a clean bill of health he can bounce back, but Dubinsky simply hasn't been the same for two years now and I doubt he'll ever be the same. A marginal 4C at best right now.
While Brandon Dubinsky has been a staple down the middle for the Jackets since he was acquired in exchange for franchise icon Rick Nash, he has regressed to the point of only being a marginal NHL player at this point in his career. Whereas Dubinsky could previously be counted on for 82 games of shutdown hockey along with 40-50 points of production, those days are over. At 33 years of age, his lack of foot speed has caught up to him, and as he's gotten older he's become less defensively sharp and his offensive instincts have similarly deteriorated. Now, when he does manage to stay healthy enough to play, he's only good for just above 10 points of production, and his abilities as a shutdown center are mostly gone. He simply is not fast enough or strong enough to match up with top opposing forwards, and his abilities as a penalty killer are also gone. Isolated impact metrics measure Dubinsky as a net negative impact on the penalty kill, a massive departure from where he once was. Given his lofty cap hit and there still being some term on his contract, Dubinsky is in a sort of limbo. He's no longer good enough to be anything other than a bad 4C or a mediocre 13th forward, but more realistically his abilities as an NHL player have regressed so far that as a GM I would struggle to find reasons to even keep him on my NHL roster. Maybe once he has a clean bill of health he can bounce back, but Dubinsky simply hasn't been the same for two years now and I doubt he'll ever be the same. A marginal 4C at best right now.
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