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Jake DeBrusk has but to file a degree by means of Boston’s first three video games.
The Bruins are going to be with out one among their top-six stalwarts going into their hardest take a look at of the early a part of the season towards the Kings.
Nevertheless it’s not due to damage.
Jake DeBrusk took half in Saturday’s morning skate at Crypto.com Area, however didn’t log reps with any of Boston’s 4 ahead groupings. After the skate, Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery mentioned that DeBrusk was late to a workforce assembly and won’t play Saturday night time towards Los Angeles.
With DeBrusk dominated out, Milan Lucic will slot into his emptiness on the top-six unit, whereas Patrick Brown will play his first sport of the season on the checking line.
In a non-related roster transfer, Ian Mitchell will substitute Kevin Shattenkirk on the third D pairing.
Right here’s Boston’s projected lineup for Saturday:
Lucic — Zacha — Pastrnak
Marchand — Poitras — Geekie
Van Riemsdyk — Coyle — Frederic
Lauko — Beecher — Brown
Grzelcyk — McAvoy
Lindholm — Carlo
Forbort — Mitchell
Swayman
It’s been removed from a perfect begin to the season for DeBrusk, who will hit unrestricted free company subsequent summer time.
Regardless of averaging 17:39 of ice time in Boston’s first three video games, the 27-year-old winger has but to file a degree whereas logging 9 pictures on aim.
Even along with his zeroes on the stat sheet, DeBrusk stands as one of many few confirmed scorers on a Bruins roster that has solely buried 5 5v5 targets by means of three video games.
Montgomery’s lineup reshuffle forward of Thursday’s sport towards the Sharks yielded stronger outcomes for a high-powered line of DeBrusk, Zacha, and Pastrnak. The Bruins held a 10-2 edge in pictures on aim throughout that trio’s 10:04 of 5v5 ice time towards San Jose.
Lucic will not be the identical top-six fixture he was throughout his first stint in Boston. However the veteran winger did file his first level of the 2023 marketing campaign off a pleasant set-up of David Pastrnak’s tally towards the Blackhawks on Oct. 11.
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