Jake Debrusk

I just hope it isn’t a hot streak that he follows up with a cold rest of the year. I think it’s fine if the ebbs and flows of the year have him playing like this at times and playing more on the perimeter at times, and the production changes that come with those. He’s not being paid to play like this all the time. Hopefully once he cools off, Boeser heats up and so forth.
Keeping himself engaged all 82 is something that he needs to figure out in his seven year deal. These hot and cold spells is not going to cut it playing on the second line with Petey. It's time to shake off that streaky player label at 28.
 
I just hope it isn’t a hot streak that he follows up with a cold rest of the year. I think it’s fine if the ebbs and flows of the year have him playing like this at times and playing more on the perimeter at times, and the production changes that come with those. He’s not being paid to play like this all the time. Hopefully once he cools off, Boeser heats up and so forth.

A cold streak for the rest of the year? That seems irrational.

He's going to go through an ebb, as you said. I hope people give him some grace while he's there. Eventually, he will play himself out of it (career trend).
 
He's streaky but he's also off to the best start of his career.

Most guys are at least a bit streaky. If he avoids massive cold streaks he should his 30 pretty easily. He's been at that pace before.
 
my viewing of him in boston was limited but my guess here is when a few start to go in for him, he starts playing to his strengths. that’s certainly what we saw here this year. once they started going in, he became more diligent about going to the net. for much of the year my biggest complaint about him was why he was always playing around the boards instead of parking himself in the crease.

so my hunch: the SH% correlates because when he’s not locked in he’s not going to the places where he can make high percentage plays.

although on the “feel” side, timing is probably also a variable in terms of timing around openings in the defence to find openings and getting to loose pucks in front or getting his stick on shots.

i mean my hope is i’m wrong and he doesn’t start to drift back to early season debrusk. but based on his career to date and what boston fans have told us, i’m just not ready to believe this is who he always is yet.
Isn't that typical?

I mean guys are streaky because when they get hot for a while their play slips a bit and then they go cold until they buckle down and start doing the right things again and get going.

vs the superstars who put up massive totals do the right things very consistently (insane perfectionists like Crosby/MacK or assembled in a lab like McDavid).

I feel like I'm just ripping of Draymond Green talking about Celebrini.
 
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Career high 28 goals.

He's come as advertised so far. A streaky goal scorer, can have a quiet game and suddenly score a goal. His cap hit will also look pretty nice after we see the crazy contracts handed out over the next 2 summers and beyond, it's gonna be seen as middle 6 winger(low end L2, high end L3).

Arguably the best net front forward on the team on the powerplay outside of maybe Boeser.
 
Career high 28 goals.

He's come as advertised so far. A streaky goal scorer, can have a quiet game and suddenly score a goal. His cap hit will also look pretty nice after we see the crazy contracts handed out over the next 2 summers and beyond, it's gonna be seen as middle 6 winger(low end L2, high end L3).

Arguably the best net front forward on the team on the powerplay outside of maybe Boeser.

His ES production has been a bit disappointing but if you said before the season that Debrusk would score 28 goals in a year where Miller had 31 points and Pettersson had 45 points, you'd take that in a heartbeat.
 
Career high 28 goals.

He's come as advertised so far. A streaky goal scorer, can have a quiet game and suddenly score a goal. His cap hit will also look pretty nice after we see the crazy contracts handed out over the next 2 summers and beyond, it's gonna be seen as middle 6 winger(low end L2, high end L3).

Arguably the best net front forward on the team on the powerplay outside of maybe Boeser.

DeBrusk remains the second best contract on the team imo.

28 goals on this team is a remarkable feat. Edit: For points, he's right on his career average of 47 (has 48) over 82 games. This despite being on the 31st ranked team in Expected Goals For...

People who were disappointed in this deal were off and this baseline bodes well for the future.
 
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i have been down on debrusk forever as a bruin, but he is a deceptively valuable player. i was correct that he has no dangles and he forechecks at the same level of enthusiasm as boeser. but he also outscores his paycheck and he's not a liability anywhere and he does have heart. we'd have lost 5 or 10 more games without him.
 
This is a very DeBrusk-ian stat line.

People forget, he actually has a history of stepping up in playoffs each year.

And he's not a Swede or American, an actual Canadian keeping Myers company..
 
Jack DeBrusk came pretty much as advertised. He's streaky scorer, who can get white-hot for a 10-game stretch, and then go ice cold. It's the reason he ran out of runway in Boston.

But really, with a career high in goals (28) and locked in at a contract of $5.5m, he represents solid value. And keep in mind, he's the leading Canuck goal-scorer despite playing with an array of centers throughout the season.

He was signed to be the everyday winger on EP40's line. But that simply never worked out, So he's been everywhere, up and down the lineup.

In fact when you look at all the guys the Canucks brought in last season, they definitely 'hit' on DeBrusk, Sherwood and Lankinen. They whiffed on Desharnais, Brannstrom and Sprong, and probably broke even with Heinen.
 

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