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A National Hockey League insider doesn’t believe that a Jake DeBrusk trade will be coming anytime soon despite being made a healthy scratch earlier this week.
After a tough month of December, the Vancouver Canucks made the difficult decision to make forward Jake DeBrusk a healthy scratch for their game on Monday night against their Pacific Northwest rivals, the Seattle Kraken.
Being made a healthy scratch is never an easy thing for a player, especially someone like Jake DeBrusk who is currently in his ninth season in the National Hockey League and he spoke about the team’s decision earlier this week, saying that it was embarrassing and he knows that he needs to be better for the team.
“It’s embarrassing. I mean, anytime you miss a game, it’s, yeah, it’s embarrassing. I’d be wrong if I wasn’t saying I’d be pissed off right now, but I understand. And I need a jolt too, I obviously haven’t been good enough. Anytime that you’re in this position, it’s lots of things. So, you know, I gotta control what I can do from this point forward and just worry about me. I think there’s a lot of different things. The good thing about this situation, in my previous times being scratched, you have a clean slate. So I care less about what has happened.” DeBrusk said.
Jake DeBrusk trade not coming anytime soon despite healthy scratch, NHL insider says
During a recent edition of the 32 Thoughts Podcast, Sportsnet insider Elliotte Friedman spoke about the rumors surrounding Jake DeBrusk, his recent healthy scratch and whether or not he could be traded by the Canucks.
According to Elliotte Friedman, a Jake DeBrusk trade likely isn’t going to happen anytime soon, adding that he doesn’t know if we’re there yet just based on one healthy scratch.
“Danault, it took 4.5 years…until it got to this point; DeBrusk is in the 2nd year; he’s still playing; it’s not like you’re looking…and saying the opportunities aren’t there; I don’t know that we’re there yet.” Friedman said.
He added, “I don’t know that we’re there yet, but just because of what [Vancouver] are going through; what the mission is…the story explodes; I still wanna wait and see a bit but I understand why it becomes a big deal.
DeBrusk, a native of Edmonton, Alberta, has just one goal and six assists in his last 17 games, which isn’t nearly good enough for someone who was brought in to create offense in the top-six and it’s not just him who has been struggling lately too as Brock Boeser hasn’t scored since November 28th, while Evander Kane had just one goal in December.
With the calendar flipped to 2026, hopefully DeBrusk and his Canucks teammates can turn it up a notch and find their groove offensively again, hopefully as early as tomorrow night’s game against the Seattle Kraken.
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