When Jake DeBrusk signed with the Vancouver Canucks, he expected pressure, passion, and the intensity of a hockey market desperate for playoff success. What he didn’t expect was being dropped into the middle of a feud between two of the team’s franchise pillars.

His debut season in Vancouver had flashes of promise. DeBrusk produced a career-high 28 goals and quickly endeared himself to fans with his work ethic and openness. But behind the scenes, tensions simmered between Elias Pettersson and J.T. Miller, tensions that eventually spilled into the locker room and altered the Canucks’ course.

By November, Miller had stepped away on a leave of absence, and Pettersson’s uneven form continued to raise questions. For DeBrusk, whose stall sat between both stars, the drama became an unanticipate

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