Columbus Blue Jackets center Brandon Dubinsky didn’t have the season he, or we, hoped he would. In fact, it might be easier to ask, “What didn’t go wrong with Dubinsky in 2017-18?”
A quick recap: Missed some camp after wrist surgery, lost his alternate captaincy early in the season, played poorly, broke his face in a fight, got sent home for cryptic “personal problems” in January (which local media continue to cagily dance around), more poor play, healthy scratched twice, zero playoff points and saw drastically reduced ice time in a first-round exit.