SAN JOSE, Calif. — To state the obvious, healthy scratches don’t sit well with hockey players.
There are two ways a player can go about it. One is feeling sorry for yourself and having it affect you on the ice and in your head. The other is to learn a thing or two while watching in the press box and refocusing your attention to those lessons upon returning to the ice.
For Jake DeBrusk, the latter has been the case.
“I learned there was a lot of things that I need to improve, and that there’s a lot of things I can do to help the team,” DeBrusk said prior to returning to the lineup Wednesday night in Anaheim.