VANCOUVER - Jake DeBrusk has been through slumps before.

The Vancouver Canucks winger has weathered patches where the puck simply won't go into the back of the net off his stick and skids where his team just can't find a win.

He's mired in both at the moment.

Vancouver lingers at the very bottom of the NHL standings with an 11-16-3 record after going 2-7-1 over the last 10 games.

"I think as a team collectively, you're not gonna have your A game every single night. But right now, we need B pluses," DeBrusk said after practice Wednesday.

"We just need to bring a little bit more and, at the same point, have a little bit of swagger when it starts going our way. I think that the best goals are the ones that you get when you earn them, when it's just an absolute grind to find one, those on

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