GM Kyle Dubas Earns New Role On Team Canada For Upcoming Tournament

Last year, Dubas was the Associate General Manager of Team Canada at the 2024 World Championships in Prague and Ostrava, Czechia, serving beside General Manager Rick Nash.

This year's World Championship will take place from May 9 through May 25 in Stockholm, Sweden.

But not everything has been sunshine and rainbows for Dubas this season.

Kyle Dubas Under Fire From Former NHL Defenseman P.K. Subban

Last month, Dubas was the target of sharp criticism from former NHL defenseman P.K. Subban, who blasted the executive for not putting a competitive team around aging star captain Sidney Crosby:

There's a lot of great, talented players in there. But this is a poorly built team, to me. They're undersized, undermanned.

They're soft in every area. So they're set up to fail. And to me, the way this team is built, it's inexcusable.

Crosby deserves way more than this. At the level he's playing at, where he's at right now in his game, his career - this is not enough for Sidney Crosby. He needs a better team around him.

For me, it's on Kyle Dubas. If it's a rebuild, then rebuild. If it's not, then we've got to see better results on the ice. This is inexcusable for me.

Regardless of Subban's view, Dubas is still held in high regard by Team Canada executives if they're tabbing him to oversee Team Canada at the upcoming World Championships and improve upon their fourth place disappointment in 2024.