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Post by madmarx on Nov 23, 2020 17:51:27 GMT -5
3.675 x 2 years
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Post by orym on Nov 23, 2020 17:55:35 GMT -5
At least if he is a let down we will only have two years to complain about it! It's under 4 million a year so that should be a win. I think he earns every dollar from a goal scoring perspective but still think he will be frustrating and soft in the big moments.
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Post by kjc2 on Nov 23, 2020 19:20:35 GMT -5
I’m happy with that money and term. Sweeney is really good at keeping the costs down.
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Post by madmarx on Nov 23, 2020 19:24:40 GMT -5
Sweeney still waiting to hear back from Z and his agent
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Post by crafar01 on Nov 24, 2020 7:15:12 GMT -5
So I wonder what could be coming next. It seems strange that this got done all of a sudden as the dollar amount is less than what I had heard he was after. Could there be something else in the works? Haggs, aka NBC's version of Eklund, was saying that OEL was back in play for Boston.
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Post by SeaBass on Nov 24, 2020 7:28:31 GMT -5
One of these days Haggs and Murphy are going to get one right.
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Post by SeaBass on Dec 2, 2020 8:31:28 GMT -5
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Post by SeaBass on Jan 14, 2021 8:24:01 GMT -5
Ok cupcake. Let's see if your balls dropped over the summer.
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Post by SeaBass on Mar 12, 2021 8:49:33 GMT -5
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Post by kjc2 on Mar 12, 2021 10:59:18 GMT -5
He played hard last night and got rewarded, I want the same kind of game tomorrow.
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Post by bruinsnorth on Mar 14, 2021 15:52:19 GMT -5
Looked better his last game but still would like to see him traded. Maybe a package of Debrusk and a Prospect like Beecher can get Forsberg out of Nashville? Heck throw in Kase and Kuraly while you are at it.
63/37/88 21/46/Forsberg 11/13/12 10/23/14
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Post by kjc2 on Mar 14, 2021 18:05:20 GMT -5
Looked better his last game but still would like to see him traded. Maybe a package of Debrusk and a Prospect like Beecher can get Forsberg out of Nashville? Heck throw in Kase and Kuraly while you are at it. 63/37/88 21/46/Forsberg 11/13/12 10/23/14 Let’s throw in more and get Ekblad while we’re at it.
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Post by SeaBass on Mar 16, 2021 7:46:41 GMT -5
He could score 10 goals a game for the rest of the year and I will still want him gone. Useless bag of shit right now.
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Post by kjc2 on Mar 16, 2021 10:59:04 GMT -5
He could score 10 goals a game for the rest of the year and I will still want him gone. Useless bag of shit right now. I was hoping he’d go on a streak so he could raise his trade value but he is hopeless. Just one of our many forwards who have just lost it.
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Post by SeaBass on Sept 14, 2022 6:49:55 GMT -5
Jake DeBrusk was lighthearted, light on specifics, and eager to move forward as a Bruin.
After what he termed “a crazy year and a half for me” — including frustration with his role, a November 2021 request for a trade, and a cancellation of that request after a coaching change — DeBrusk is back for a sixth season in Boston. He was at Tuesday’s informal skate in Brighton, prepping for his first NHL season under a head coach other than Bruce Cassidy.
“Really good conversations,” DeBrusk said of his offseason chats with incoming coach Jim Montgomery, connections they made via text message and phone call. “Just kind of quick introductions. I haven’t met him yet — I got here late last night — he sounds very eager to put his staple on this team, as we all are.”
After the Bruins’ season ended in mid-May, DeBrusk said he “hadn’t thought about” his future with the team. He wanted to take time to consider his future. In June, after Cassidy was dismissed, the 25-year-old informed general manager Don Sweeney he wanted to stay.
“I think the biggest thing was the support I got from the guys in this room last year,” DeBrusk said Tuesday. “It felt like there was a lot of stuff coming my way, for obvious reasons, and the guys in this room really kept it tight and kept it as one. That’s something I’ve always loved about this team. I’ve always loved the boys, and also the city and everything else. This is what I know. This is what I’m comfortable with. It wasn’t honestly that hard of a decision to make.”
Asked if Cassidy’s exit had anything to do with him nixing his trade request, DeBrusk certainly didn’t say “no.”
“I mean, hey, it’s been speculated enough, I think,” he said, with a smile. “I think you guys know how I see stuff. Obviously that’s an easy answer.
“But, it’s one of those things that we could talk and talk about — I respect that you guys, obviously your jobs are to ask those types of questions. Obviously it’s one of those things that’s kind of interesting — you can have lots of hot topics [about] the situation, even why I asked for a trade — but I am just looking forward to this year.
“I think I said that [after the trade deadline], I was looking forward to not having to answer those questions anymore. It’s one of those things that’s in the past. This whole summer’s been focused on getting right and getting ready for the season, and that’s kind of how I view that question.”
Now, he hopes his contract extension leads to another.
“I think everybody wants to [think] long-term when you play in a city like Boston,” said DeBrusk, who is likely to start the year on a line with Bergeron and left wing Pavel Zacha. “Obviously you’ve got to earn that, right?”
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Post by SeaBass on Sept 14, 2022 6:50:21 GMT -5
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Post by fforr on Sept 14, 2022 11:07:54 GMT -5
Hopefully all trade demand/rescind talk goes away, pronto. And in the event that Zacha outplays him and earns the spot when Marchy returns….well guess we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
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Post by kjc2 on Sept 15, 2022 5:44:36 GMT -5
Jake pretty much said Butch was his problem without saying anything. His non answer was enough.
I think in a perfect world Jake can stick around for awhile and play top six minutes. But realistically in a perfect world Marchand and Hall have three more years left on their deals, Pasta signs an extension, Lysell cracks the top six by next season and Zacha moves to the middle next year. This leaves Debrusk no spot in the top six. I think we’ll need him this year if the season doesn’t crumble by Christmas but beyond that he will be a trade chip and hopefully a high end trade chip for a center.
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Post by SeaBass on Dec 14, 2022 10:20:48 GMT -5
BOSTON — Jake DeBrusk’s normal spot is on the No. 1 line. Playing next to Brad Marchand and Patrice Bergeron, one of the NHL’s best three-zone partnerships of all time, has its perks.
But there’s something to be said for a temporary ride with Taylor Hall and Pavel Zacha, necessitated by David Krejci’s second straight absence and David Pastrnak’s elevation to the top line. DeBrusk’s second-line mates come up short in multiple categories compared to Marchand and Bergeron, as most players would.
Hall and Zacha, however, are undeniably faster straight-line skaters. Likewise, DeBrusk has elite feet.
As such, the three have developed a credible partnership.
“It’s different,” said DeBrusk after Tuesday’s 4-3 shootout win over the Islanders. “There’s different pros and cons to everything. The biggest thing I kind of notice is the speed aspect, obviously. You’ve got Hallsy, probably the fastest player in the NHL. So it pushes the pace for me in that sense of things.”
At times, DeBrusk has played slower than he should. His game was muted when this happened.
When he revs up the pace, few opponents can keep up. In overtime, DeBrusk’s outside speed nearly led to the winner.
“That’s his entire game,” coach Jim Montgomery said of DeBrusk’s high-tempo play. “When he has the puck, he has the ability to put defensemen on their heels. I thought he was attacking defensemen. Like that rush in overtime, I mean, wow. I thought he was ending it. I thought that was going to be the hat-trick goal.”
DeBrusk’s speed gets in opponents’ heads. It appeared that way in the shootout when he approached Semyon Varlamov.
The left wing launched out of the gate when he picked up the puck at center ice. Varlamov, like all goalies are taught to do, came out of the crease and backtracked to match DeBrusk’s speed.
That’s when DeBrusk pulled a fast one.
Instead of firing a full-force snapper, DeBrusk took something off his shot and soft-lobbed the puck upstairs. Varlamov didn’t have a chance. By scoring the goal, DeBrusk evened the shootout at 1-1. One shooter later, Pastrnak fired home the deciding strike.
“I think over the last couple years, I’ve made fun of (Jeremy Swayman) when I’ve beaten him,” cracked DeBrusk. “They now know my moves. I think it’s more so that they kind of talk to me about the speed that I’m coming with. It’s hard to read if it’s a shot, deke or if I’m going to slow down. You can kind of decipher it both ways. Some guys come in like (Evgeny) Kuznetsov, very, very slow. It just brings another element. You try and get out a little bit wide. I missed my other one. I think it hit the post last time I tried. So I went back to old faithful. Thankfully, it went in.”
DeBrusk played a part in the three regulation goals too. In the first period, when Zach Parise went off for goalie interference, Pastrnak let a strongside shot fly. DeBrusk, who was posted up with his blade presented to the outside, quickly dipped his stick in the shooting lane and deflected Pastrnak’s shot through Varlamov’s pads.
Nineteen seconds later, DeBrusk struck again, this time at even strength. Zacha started the jailbreak deep in the defensive zone with a long-distance pass for Hall. After receiving the puck from Hall, DeBrusk flung a backhand pass for a streaking Derek Forbort. The puck glanced off Josh Bailey and past Varlamov.
DeBrusk’s two-goal outburst gave the Bruins a 2-0 lead when the Islanders had the upper hand in pace and possession. The Bruins, coming off a three-game trip with the finale in Las Vegas on Sunday, had left their legs somewhere around the Rocky Mountains.
“We were sluggish in the first,” Montgomery said. “Probably our worst period of the year. And expected.”
But DeBrusk has the explosiveness to put his team up when it should probably be down. When he’s skating, he is a handful to negate because of how he processes the game at full tilt.
In the second period, while killing an A.J. Greer roughing penalty, DeBrusk tracked down a loose puck in the Bruins’ end. DeBrusk realized that if he punched the gas, the Bruins could have a rush chance. Seconds later, Forbort reeled in a Zacha pass and snapped a short-handed bead over Varlamov’s glove.
“I didn’t know he was, actually,” said DeBrusk when asked if he knew Forbort was joining the play. “I just dropped it to Zachs and tried to pick a stick. Maybe Zachs was going to shoot. He made a great play. I turned around and saw it was Forbs. I didn’t know where the puck was going. But he shelfed it. A little baby sauce on that guy. It was a little finesse touch. I was really happy to see it go in, obviously. It was a snipe. I was very impressed, to say the least.”
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Post by madmarx on Jan 2, 2023 10:09:25 GMT -5
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Post by kjc2 on Jan 2, 2023 12:07:30 GMT -5
Wow, we have two players on that top 5 breakout season list.
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Post by SeaBass on Jan 5, 2023 7:49:13 GMT -5
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – The Bruins will be without Jake DeBrusk for their West Coast trip, if not longer. A team spokesman said team doctors were still determining the extent of DeBrusk’s injury, which happened when he took a Matt Grzelcyk shot off the left leg in Monday’s Winter Classic. The club said it would offer more on DeBrusk’s status Thursday morning. A report from Daily Faceoff’s Frank Seravalli said DeBrusk had a fractured fibula, which could knock him out of the lineup for several weeks. A message to DeBrusk’s agent, Rick Valette, was not immediately returned. So if that is accurate, DeBrusk’s resurgent season has seen him play hero at Fenway Park while playing on a broken leg. He scored two goals after taking friendly fire from Grzelcyk.
“I did not know he was actually hurt at all,” coach Jim Montgomery said after Wednesday’s practice. “I saw him wince when he took the shot, but then he scored right after. I used him in the last minute of play. I was trying to get him his hat trick, going for the empty net. I didn’t think there was anything wrong.”
After the Bruins’ 2-1 win, Montgomery told reporters that DeBrusk was “tougher than people think” and “more committed than people are aware.” He said Wednesday those comments weren’t about No. 74 playing through a busted leg.
“I was talking more, not so much the physical toughness, but the mental toughness he has,” Montgomery said. “He plays with two superstars [Brad Marchand and Patrice Bergeron], elite players in the league. He makes me laugh — say they don’t have a good rush in practice, he’ll come back and if he screwed up, he’ll say, ‘Good rush, good rush, eh?’ He has the ability to inject humor when he knows it’s time to dig in, which I appreciate.”
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Post by nfld77 on Aug 30, 2023 9:47:08 GMT -5
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Post by SeaBass on Aug 30, 2023 11:33:35 GMT -5
He might want to stay but I bet his agent could convince him to go elsewhere for more MONEY.
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Post by nfld77 on Aug 30, 2023 22:23:27 GMT -5
He might want to stay but I bet his agent could convince him to go elsewhere for more MONEY. Could very well pose a problem but if Jake is true to his word and really wants to remain with the only nhl organization he has known, Sweeney and the Bruins will be in much better shape with the salary cap next season so hopefully he has another great season and they get him signed longterm..One of my favorite players, DeBrusk has been tremendous since he got moved up to top line and dont mind the corners. Cant ask for much more than the way he played last season, I truly hope it works out for him and the Bruins!!
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Post by nfld77 on Sept 2, 2023 12:56:11 GMT -5
thehockeywriters.com/boston-bruins-predicting-jake-debrusk-next-contract/Good read and its up for debate on how many of us think Jakes worth 6.75 million per season for 8 years..Could be a bargain down the road OR should Sweeney wait and see how he fares without Bergeron being his centreman this season..This is his last season of his 2 yr contract at 4 million avg.. It's worth mentioning that TB gave Brandon Hagel a similar contract of 8 yrs at an avg of 6.5 million, good solid comparisn but Jakes numbers are slightly better..Personally I just hope they get it done!!
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Post by kjc2 on Sept 2, 2023 13:28:57 GMT -5
thehockeywriters.com/boston-bruins-predicting-jake-debrusk-next-contract/Good read and its up for debate on how many of us think Jakes worth 6.75 million per season for 8 years..Could be a bargain down the road OR should Sweeney wait and see how he fares without Bergeron being his centreman this season..This is his last season of his 2 yr contract at 4 million avg.. It's worth mentioning that TB gave Brandon Hagel a similar contract of 8 yrs at an avg of 6.5 million, good solid comparisn but Jakes numbers are slightly better..Personally I just hope they get it done!! He’d really need to show me something in the first half of this season before I would talk about anything that starts with a six in it. He’s got a really nice shot and good speed but anything in the six million range should be going to a player that can make stuff happen. He excelled with Marchand and Bergeron, do at least the same with Coyle and then we can talk about six million. Just my humble opinion🙂
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Post by kjc2 on Sept 3, 2023 11:00:12 GMT -5
I’ve been thinking more about the Debrusk situation. The Bruins really have to wait because there are too many unanswered questions heading into this season.
We don’t know how the Bruins will look this season with Zacha and Coyle as our top two centers. If they can’t cut it the Bruins need to start looking right away, not to salvage this season but to secure a top center for next season. We just can’t assume a Scheille or Elias Lindholm or whomever makes it to market. If Winnipeg or Calgary can’t do a deal with these guys they’ll be gone by the deadline and most likely extended. It’s not going to matter how much cap space we have next year when nobody of any quality is left. A Jake Debrusk extension has to be on hold until we figure out if he’s a piece we want to dangle in a trade or a long term asset that usually comes with some kind of no trade or limited trade clause.
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Post by nfld77 on Sept 3, 2023 13:36:50 GMT -5
I’ve been thinking more about the Debrusk situation. The Bruins really have to wait because there are too many unanswered questions heading into this season. We don’t know how the Bruins will look this season with Zacha and Coyle as our top two centers. If they can’t cut it the Bruins need to start looking right away, not to salvage this season but to secure a top center for next season. We just can’t assume a Scheille or Elias Lindholm or whomever makes it to market. If Winnipeg or Calgary can’t do a deal with these guys they’ll be gone by the deadline and most likely extended. It’s not going to matter how much cap space we have next year when nobody of any quality is left. A Jake Debrusk extension has to be on hold until we figure out if he’s a piece we want to dangle in a trade or a long term asset that usually comes with some kind of no trade or limited trade clause. Yes it makes perfect sense to me also to wait and see how this season unfolds..My hope is we can sign Jake longterm and sign that #1 centremen next season...Besides Pasta, he's the best pure scorer we have..To trade Debrusk for a top centreman isnt a win win situation, it's a win loss..Gotta keep Jake and find a centreman, if not through trade this season, then next season!! I'm betting on Jake potting at least 30 this season, 40 not out of reach!!
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Post by kjc2 on Sept 3, 2023 15:27:01 GMT -5
I’ve been thinking more about the Debrusk situation. The Bruins really have to wait because there are too many unanswered questions heading into this season. We don’t know how the Bruins will look this season with Zacha and Coyle as our top two centers. If they can’t cut it the Bruins need to start looking right away, not to salvage this season but to secure a top center for next season. We just can’t assume a Scheille or Elias Lindholm or whomever makes it to market. If Winnipeg or Calgary can’t do a deal with these guys they’ll be gone by the deadline and most likely extended. It’s not going to matter how much cap space we have next year when nobody of any quality is left. A Jake Debrusk extension has to be on hold until we figure out if he’s a piece we want to dangle in a trade or a long term asset that usually comes with some kind of no trade or limited trade clause. Yes it makes perfect sense to me also to wait and see how this season unfolds..My hope is we can sign Jake longterm and sign that #1 centremen next season...Besides Pasta, he's the best pure scorer we have..To trade Debrusk for a top centreman isnt a win win situation, it's a win loss..Gotta keep Jake and find a centreman, if not through trade this season, then next season!! I'm betting on Jake potting at least 30 this season, 40 not out of reach!! If it’s Marchand Coyle and Debrusk, I can see him cracking 30 providing Coyle can have a strong faceoff percentage and providing the other line of Zacha and Pasta can draw the number 1 opposing defensive matchup. If it turns into something like JVR-Coyle-Debrusk then I don’t like his chances at all. I do agree that he’s our second best pure shooter but he can’t generate offence like Pasta, he needs skilled people around him more so than a Pasta.
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