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3 Canucks Stars of the Week: Jake DeBrusk continues point streak
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Arielle Lalande
Nov 24, 2025, 14:00 ESTUpdated: Nov 24, 2025, 12:28 EST
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Welcome back to Stars of the Week at CanucksArmy! Every week, we’ll be bringing you our Top Three best and brightest performers on the Vancouver Canucks that week. Disagree with our picks or have your own stars to nominate? Let us know in the comments below!
If you wanted to see a high-energy, competitive, crowd-pleasing game from a professional Vancouver sports team this week, you had plenty of options. It just would not have been the Vancouver Canucks.
That said, the Canucks were gracious enough to invite members of the Goldeneyes, the Whitecaps, the Rise, and Olympic-calibre athletes to their Sunday-night home game against the bottom-of-the-barrel Calgary Flames. They proceeded to lose 5-2 in an underwhelming fashion, kindly reminding their athletic compatriots that the Canucks pose no threat to becoming the best professional sports team in Vancouver anytime soon.
This game followed a confounding 8-5 loss against the Florida Panthers earlier this week that featured fourth-string goaltender Jiri Patera in net – long story – and a 4-2 loss against the Dallas Stars that was certainly the Canucks’ best effort of the year, despite the final score. They topped off these two disorganized yet genuinely tough efforts with a loss to the only team somehow worse than them, although, in all fairness, the Flames are on a three-game win streak. The Canucks have now lost three in a row. 
If good is the enemy of great, then apathy is the enemy of us all. It is one thing to knowingly support an openly young and rebuilding team through the growing pains that make up the life cycle of hockey, like the San Jose Sharks. The Canucks, and I cannot emphasize this enough, are not the San Jose Sharks. The Canucks do not possess Vancouver native first-overall phenom forward Macklin Celebrini, the Canucks are not taking team trips to attend The Book of Mormon on Broadway, and the Canucks do not even possess their respectably middling record of 11-9-3.
As of the time of writing this, the Vancouver Canucks are 30th in the National Hockey League. It is becoming increasingly difficult to select three top performers when most of the team looks like overtired and overworked Enron accounting interns in the midst of October 2001. Nevertheless, we venture on. 

Quinn Hughes

To everyone who believes Quinn Hughes will be traded by the Canucks this season, fear not: the only place Quinn Hughes is going right now is to the happy place in his mind after he’s forced to play another 30-minute night to make up for his team’s deficiencies.
After a slower start and games missed due to injury, Captain Lexapro is back to being the showstopping difference maker he has previously been.
Against Florida, he had a three-point night in an insanely high-scoring and randomly aggressive Monday-night matchup. Against Dallas, he made puck possession a priority and led the Canucks with a Corsi (CF%) stat of 64.86%. Against Calgary, though, he made them look as confused as 11 PM beer leaguers to give Jake DeBrusk a fighting chance and then did it again to give us this “doing this group project on my own out of desperation and spite” goal. 

Jake DeBrusk

It is well-known that Jake DeBrusk, for all of his Pokémon-collecting and Oreo-loving personality, is a hot-and-cold player. But when he can get into one of those pockets of points production, it’s golden for everyone. Well, except for opponents.
Could the Canucks be entering one of these bubbles?
This week, DeBrusk extended his point streak to four consecutive games with a power play goal and two assists, and had a team-leading expected goals-for percentage (xGF%) of 91.68 against Dallas  – meaning he contributed far more positively than negatively to Vancouver’s herculean effort against the Stars.
Now, for a brief respite, enjoy this Looney Tunes-esque Jake DeBrusk goal.

Filip Hronek

Daniel Wagner’s debut CanucksArmy article this week delves into Filip Hronek’s impact on the team in excellent detail, but I have to give this defenceman an accolade of my own. Now, I can sincerely promise you there is not a current CanucksArmy-wide conspiracy to glaze Filip Hronek. That said, if any of my colleagues are interested in starting one just for fun, I’m all ears, because the Canucks are in hockey purgatory and, in the words of Calgary Flames goaltender Devin Cooley, nothing matters, we’re all going to die. 
Let’s leave existentialism at the last highway exit, though. There is a lot to like about Filip Hronek’s game at the present moment. While D-partner Quinn Hughes might top the charts, it should be noted that Hronek is 15th in average ice time for defencemen across the entire league, just behind notable number one franchise defencemen like Rasmus Andersson and Josh Morrissey. Hronek has been one of Vancouver’s most consistent players at even strength, all while seeing deployment on the power play and penalty kill, too. This week, he had a power play goal and an even-strength goal to show for these efforts. Take his game-opener against the Flames. Kevin Bahl is easily overwhelmed as Hronek positively moseys in on a  2-on-1 with Evander Kane; Rasmus Andersson can’t backcheck fast enough to fix Bahl’s inaction. If only the rest of the game had looked like this.
Hronek has also been a leader in the room – and, yes, being Assistant Captain of Vibes can matter more to a team’s success than one might think. Hronek has been paired with practically every left-shot blueliner this year and remained incredibly consistent despite the man merry-go-round. He has been frequently paired with Elias Pettersson, The Younger, who has spoken extensively on the collaboration and mentorship he has experienced working with Hronek for over a year now. Hronek has, by and large, made the best of a bad situation both this season and in previous years, and deserves a nod for resilience, at the very least.
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