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Jake DeBrusk

Fifty-nine per cent of his shot attempts from inside 20 feet, 28 goals, and fourteen of them on the power play.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2017-18	BOS	70	16	27	43	+13	19	2	0	5	143	11.2	14:22
2018-19	BOS	68	27	15	42	+2	18	8	0	4	156	17.3	16:10
2019-20	BOS	65	19	16	35	-1	14	7	0	5	161	11.8	16:03
2020-21	BOS	41	5	9	14	+1	6	2	0	1	92	5.4	14:54
2021-22	BOS	77	25	17	42	+6	10	3	0	8	184	13.6	15:02
2022-23	BOS	64	27	23	50	+26	16	6	0	6	191	14.1	16:47
2023-24	BOS	80	19	21	40	+4	18	2	2	3	183	10.4	16:50
2024-25	VAN	82	28	20	48	-15	18	14	0	4	171	16.4	16:39
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	547	166	148	314	+36	119	44	2	36	1281	13.0	15:55

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 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

28 goals and 20 assists in 82 games — 48 points at 16:39 a night, minus-15, with 14 power-play goals, 4 game-winners and 18 penalty minutes on 171 shots, converting at 16.4 per cent.

48.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 28th percentile. His ice went 43-44 against an expectation of 35.77-38.81 — three goals better than expected for and eight worse against.

The Finesse Game

171 attempts at a median of 16 feet with 59 per cent from inside 20 feet and only 12 per cent from beyond 40 — among the least perimeter shot profiles in this edition. He scores from the paint and nowhere else, and 14 of his 28 goals came on the power play standing in front of the goaltender.

20 assists in 82 games. There is little creation; he is a finisher who needs a line that will find him.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 198 and honest without being heavy. He goes to the front of the net and takes the punishment that comes with a 16-foot median shot, and he does not initiate much beyond that.

18 penalty minutes in 82 games is a low rate. He does not retaliate and he does not go looking for anything after the whistle.

The Intangibles

Fourteenth overall in 2015 and 547 games and 314 points, seven seasons of it in Boston, where he was traded to and from more than once without ever leaving.

He is 29 and Vancouver signed him as a free agent in the summer of 2024 on a seven-year contract. Twenty-eight goals in the first year of it is roughly what the club paid for.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
68.1% of his attempts in the slot, 95th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“He scores from the paint and nowhere else, and **14 of his 28 goals came on the power play** standing in front of the goaltender.”
playmakerhe lacks it· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“There is little creation; he is a finisher who needs a line that will find him.”
retaliateshe lacks it· answers the cross-check, and takes the second penalty
“He does not retaliate and he does not go looking for anything after the whistle.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,032 minutes

Expected goals: 48%; 35th pct
Shot attempts: 47.5%; 29th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 43 for, 44 against. Expected: 35.8 and 38.8.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

60th

Numbers

35th

The report ranks him 25 points above where the numbers do. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.

Both bars are percentiles among the 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 74 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 82 games

Top speed: 22.8 mph; 74th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.71 a game
Distance: 2.75 miles a game
Hardest shot: 85.2 mph; 45th pct

A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 1032 minutes at five-on-five

Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.

Why the numbers land there

Five-on-five, 2024-25

The club: VAN took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.0% — 1.1 below the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,032 minutes at five-on-five — 65th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Elias Pettersson	46.1%	49.6%	54.6%
Brock Boeser	50.0%	46.5%	45.9%
Quinn Hughes	56.8%	41.7%	53.1%

46.1% together, 49.6% for him apart and 54.6% for Pettersson apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.

Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

232 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 30 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 59% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 12% from beyond forty.