Jake DeBrusk

Last Season

Twenty-three goals and 19 assists in 81 games — 42 points, minus-31, at 16:52 a night with only twelve penalty minutes.

Nineteen of his twenty-three goals came on the power play.

The Finesse Game

That power-play figure is the third-highest total in the league and by far the highest share — eighty-three per cent of his goals came with the man advantage, which means four even-strength goals in eighty-one games.

The shot chart makes it plain. Three hundred and thirteen unblocked attempts with 62 per cent from inside twenty feet and a median of fourteen — that is a net-front specialist’s chart, and it works on a power play where he can stand there unmolested and does not work at five-on-five where he cannot.

Nineteen assists in 81 games is thin.

The Physical Game

Six foot one, 198, and he goes to the front of the net without the weight to hold it. Twelve penalty minutes across a full season.

The speed is real and the wall play is not.

The Intangibles

Forty-five point two per cent of the expected goals, 15th percentile, and 45.4 per cent of the shot attempts, 14th, across 990 minutes, with the goals 34-42 against.

Nine points in his last ten, eight of them goals.

He is 29, a fourteenth overall pick, and the honest summary is that Vancouver has a very good power-play forward who cannot be used at even strength on a club that badly needs even-strength goals.