Louie DeBrusk

Louie DeBrusk
Date of birth	March 19, 1971
place of birth	Cambridge , Ontario , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	108 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1989 , 3rd lap, 49th position New York Rangers
Career stations
1988-1991	London Knights
1991	Binghamton Rangers
1991-1997	Edmonton Oilers
1997-1998	Tampa Bay Lightning
1998-2001	Phoenix Coyotes
2001	Citadelles de Quebec
2001-2002	Hamilton Bulldogs
2002-2003	Norfolk Admirals
2003-2004	Hartford Wolf Pack

Louis Dennis "Louie" DeBrusk (born March 19, 1971 in Cambridge , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 416 games for the Edmonton Oilers , Tampa Bay Lightning , Phoenix Coyotes and Chicago in the course of his active career between 1998 and 2004 Blackhawks in the National Hockey League on the left winger position . DeBrusk embodied the Enforcer player type . His son Jake DeBrusk is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

DeBrusk spent his junior years between 1988 and 1991 with the London Knights in the Ontario Hockey League , where he acted as a power forward and proved to be a profitable scorer with 30 goals in his third year. In the 1989 NHL Entry Draft , the striker was selected in the third round in 49th place by the New York Rangers from the National Hockey League . At the end of the 1990/91 season DeBrusk made his professional debut in the jersey of the Binghamton Rangers , the farm team of the New York Rangers, from the American Hockey League . However, without playing a game for the New York Rangers, he was sent to the Edmonton Oilers in October 1991 in a so-called " blockbuster " transfer together with Bernie Nicholls and Steven Rice . Meanwhile, the Rangers received Mark Messier and a month later - in another transfer deal between the two teams - Jeff Beukeboom . In return, David Shaw also moved to Edmonton.

In his first year as a professional DeBrusk, who now primarily played the role of an enforcer , commuted between the Edmonton NHL squad and that of the Cape Breton Oilers farm team in the AHL. It was not until the 1992/93 season that the attacker was firmly in the Edmonton Oilers' squad. In the following five years DeBrusk came in the service of the Oilers only once over the number of 50 completed season games. In the summer of 1997, he finally left the club and joined the Tampa Bay Lightning as a free agent . There he played 54 NHL appearances, but was also used in the International Hockey League with the San Antonio Dragons and transferred to the Phoenix Coyotes in June 1998 with a five-round vote in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft . In return, Craig Janney moved from Phoenix to Tampa.

After initial assignments in numerous Coyotes farm teams and only sporadic minutes of action in the NHL, the Canadian was a permanent member of the Phoenix NHL squad for the following two years from the 1999/2000 season . However, his contract was not extended in the summer of 2001. After the winger had not found a new employer by November of the same year, he joined the Citadelles de Québec from the AHL by means of a trial contract limited to 25 games . However, this was dissolved after only nine missions just a month later, as the league competitor Hamilton Bulldogs had offered him a contract until the end of the season. DeBrusk then ended the 2001/02 season in Hamilton. For the 2002/03 season, the free agent was hired by the Chicago Blackhawks for one year . This used him mainly in the AHL with the Norfolk Admirals . He also came to four games for the Blackhawks. His last station in professional sport was in the 2003/04 season, the Hartford Wolf Pack from the American Hockey League, which had signed him on trial in December 2003. The 33-year-old then ended his active career.

At the end of his career, DeBrusk switched to radio , where he worked as an expert on the broadcasts of the Phoenix Coyotes' games. From 2008 to 2014 he worked in the same function for the television broadcasts of the Edmonton Oilers. Sporadically he also took over this function in the following years. Since 2016 he can be seen in the program Hockey Night in Canada on the Canadian television channel CBC .

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1988/89	London Knights	OHL		59	11	11	22nd	149		19th	1	1	2	43
1989/90	London Knights	OHL		61	21st	19th	40	198		6th	2	2	4th	24
1990/91	London Knights	OHL		61	31	33	64	223		7th	2	2	4th	14th
1990/91	Binghamton Rangers	AHL		2	0	0	0	7th		2	0	0	0	9
1991/92	Cape Breton Oilers	AHL		28	2	2	4th	73		-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		25th	2	1	3	124		-	-	-	-	-
1992/93	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		51	8th	2	10	205		-	-	-	-	-
1993/94	Cape Breton Oilers	AHL		5	3	1	4th	73		-	-	-	-	-
1993/94	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		48	4th	6th	10	185		-	-	-	-	-
1994/95	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		34	2	0	2	93		-	-	-	-	-
1995/96	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		38	1	3	4th	96		-	-	-	-	-
1996/97	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		32	2	0	2	94		6th	0	0	0	4th
1997/98	San Antonio Dragons	IHL		17th	7th	4th	11	130		-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		54	1	2	3	166		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Las Vegas Thunder	IHL		26th	3	6th	9	160		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Long Beach Ice Dogs	IHL		24	5	5	10	134		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Springfield Falcons	AHL		3	1	0	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL		15th	0	0	0	34		6th	2	0	2	6th
1999/00	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL		61	4th	3	7th	78		3	0	0	0	0
2000/01	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL		39	0	0	0	79		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Citadelles de Quebec	AHL		9	0	0	0	44		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL		20th	3	5	8th	42		13	1	0	1	30th
2002/03	Norfolk Admirals	AHL		20th	1	0	1	10		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		4th	0	0	0	7th		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		12	0	0	0	12		-	-	-	-	-
OHL total				181	63	63	126	570		32	5	5	10	81
AHL total				99	10	8th	18th	246		15th	1	0	1	39
IHL total				67	15th	15th	30th	424		-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				401	24	17th	41	1161		15th	2	0	2	10

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Louie DeBrusk at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Louie DeBrusk at eliteprospects.com (English)