Jake DeBrusk scratched from Bruins lineup for being late to crew assembly

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Jake DeBrusk has but to document a degree by means of Boston’s first three video games.

Boston Bruins' Jake DeBrusk plays during a preseason NHL hockey game, Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, in Philadelphia.
Jake DeBrusk is not going to play throughout Saturday’s recreation towards the Kings. (AP Photograph/Matt Slocum)

The Bruins are going to be with out one in every of 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 Enviornment, 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 crew 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 recreation of the season on the checking line.

In a non-related roster transfer, Ian Mitchell will change 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 super begin to the season for DeBrusk, who will hit unrestricted free company subsequent summer season.

Regardless of averaging 17:39 of ice time in Boston’s first three video games, the 27-year-old winger has but to document a degree whereas logging 9 pictures on purpose.

Even together 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 objectives by means of three video games.

Montgomery’s lineup reshuffle forward of Thursday’s recreation 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 purpose throughout that trio’s 10:04 of 5v5 ice time towards San Jose.

Lucic is probably not the identical top-six fixture he was throughout his first stint in Boston. However the veteran winger did document his first level of the 2023 marketing campaign off a pleasant set-up of David Pastrnak’s tally towards the Blackhawks on Oct. 11.