Chicago Blackhawks forward Jason Dickinson will miss the final 11 games of the season with a wrist injury, interim coach Anders Sorensen announced Tuesday.
Dickinson missed Sunday’s home game against the Philadelphia Flyers after getting hurt Saturday in St. Louis. He had played in six games after missing 11 games since sustaining a left ankle injury Feb. 5 against the Edmonton Oilers.
“He’s had some bad luck,” Sorensen said. “PK (penalty kill) is one thing, but we know in terms of shutting other teams’ top lines down, he’s done a good job the last couple of years here. It’s a loss, but it’s an opportunity for other players to step up here.”
Injuries aside, it had been a down year for Dickinson after he posted a career-high 22 goals and 13 assists last season. He had seven goals and nine assists through 59 games this season, but also took a step back defensively.
Dickinson was exasperated with his own game as well as the team’s performance against the Vancouver Canucks last week, a second straight 6-2 loss after an identical loss to the Seattle Kraken.
“Not contributing and it’s driving me nuts,” he said. “I expect a lot more of myself and it’s increasingly frustrating feeling OK physically and good enough to go that I should be contributing a lot more than I have been.”
In other injury news, defenseman Alec Martinez is day-to-day with an upper body injury, and forward Colton Dach (upper body) is “going to be out for a little bit, too,” said Sorensen, though Sorensen doubted the injury would cost Dach the rest of the season.