Capitals Comment On Dubois' Match Penalty For Intent To Injure; PLD Automatically Suspended Pending League Review

The Washington Capitals will wait to see what the league has to say regarding Pierre-Luc Dubois, who is automatically suspended pending review after taking a match penalty for intent to injure. Dubois was in the defensive zone when Robert Thomas interfered with him going forward. The Capitals center then put his arms out and appeared to grab Thomas as both of them collided and fell to the ice.

Thomas' face went head-first into the surface. Pierre-Luc Dubois has received a match penalty for intent to injure on Robert Thomas 😳🤕 pic. twitter.

com/SjP9H2zJbS — Gino Hard (@GinoHard_) March 25, 2026 Thomas was injured on the play, and Dubois received a match penalty, which is a five-minute major, automatic game ejection and automatic suspension pending league review. Coach Spencer Carbery didn't believe that Dubois deserved the match penalty, and said his assessment remains the same after re-watching the play. "The issue that I have with that play is they call the penalty, Robert Thomas is obviously setting a pick there on Dubie where he's impeding his ability to skate through and continue to check the player that he was trying to check, so he's getting interfered with and now he's trying to get around him and then they get wrapped up," Carbery said.

"It's unfortunate that Thomas gets injured there but to me he initiates the contact. Obviously, they called an interference penalty, which Thomas initiates the contact and then they get locked up and Dubie and him go to the ground and unfortunately he gets hurt. But that to me that's not even close to a match penalty.