Jake DeBrusk

This Season So Far

The 2024-25 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

80 games with Boston, 19 goals and 21 assists for 40 points, 2 on the power play, 2 shorthanded, 18 penalty minutes, 16:50 a night and plus-4, with 3 game-winners. He took 50.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,057 minutes, the 59th percentile, and his ice went 39-31 against an expectation of 44.89-43.56.

Six goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and thirteen goals of goaltending above them. Thirteen goals of goaltending in his favour is the largest such figure of anybody arriving in Vancouver.

The Finesse Game

243 attempts at a median of 21 feet with 48 per cent of them from inside twenty and 17 per cent from beyond forty, 175 of those on goal, converted at 10.4 per cent against a career 12.43 across 1,110 shots.

138 career goals and 32 game-winners in 465 games. Almost half his attempts came from inside twenty feet and the median was 21; he goes to the net on the rush and finishes from the paint, which is why a career 12.43 per cent has held up over eleven hundred shots.

The Physical Game

He is 6-1 and 198 and took 18 penalty minutes.

101 career penalty minutes in 465 games. He arrives at the net through people rather than around them and takes the punishment that comes with it, but there is very little forechecking damage in his game and the penalty totals say so.

The Intangibles

Fourteenth overall in 2015 by Boston, seven seasons, and Vancouver will be his second organisation.

A career plus-51 and 30 power-play goals in 465 games. He is 28, he has scored twenty-five or more in three different seasons, and 32 game-winners in 465 games is one every fifteen.