BOSTON — Jake DeBrusk hasn’t fixed his stat line yet, but at least for now, he’s fixed the narrative.
After months of worrying about, thinking about and answering questions about why he wasn’t scoring, the Bruins forward got to talk about having another strong game against a good team in Boston’s 5-2 win over Colorado on Thursday.
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DeBrusk scored a pretty goal on a redirection in the first period and made a nifty pass across the slot to David Pastrnak for the game-sealing power-play goal in the third.
“That play to Pasta is a high-end play,” Jim Montgomery said.
DeBrusk smiled over a newly added welt on his chin.
“It’s nice to get some production obviously in a win,” he said happy to get points and no stitches. “I’ll try to build on it.”
But while his two points gave him 10 goals and 12 assists this season, his solid game at both ends, including two critical backchecking plays that helped neutralize would-be Avalanche chances, left Montgomery encouraged.
“It’s getting repetitive here in the second half,” Montgomery said. “It seems like every game is his best game of the year. It’s a credit to him.”
DeBrusk said having a couple days off at Christmas, helped him reset and refocus.
“I’ve got half the year to make it up. It was pretty frustrating at the beginning of the year,” he said. I’ve been in positions like this before where I didn’t know if I could do it. I know I can do it. That made it all the more frustrating. … Christmas break helped me get away from the game even for just a couple of days. I came back fresh and I’ve been trying to build off of that.
Montgomery said if DeBrusk is clicking, the Bruins are better top to bottom.
“It makes us hard to check. It makes us come at you wave after wave,” he said.
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