The Vancouver Canucks host the Vegas Golden Knights at Rogers Arena on April 7, with puck drop set for 10 p.m. EDT, and the betting case starts with two Vancouver skaters who have been producing at different paces. Jake DeBrusk enters with 19 goals and 19 assists in 2025-26, while Brock Boeser has put together a steadier scoring run that has kept him relevant on the board.
DeBrusk has averaged 2.64 shots on goal per game this season and has gone over that number in six of his last seven games, a stretch in which he has posted six points and scored in three straight contests. He has also recorded at least one point in six of those seven games. Even so, the matchup is not a clean one for shot volume: in two meetings with Vegas this season, DeBrusk has managed only three shots on goal combined, and the Golden Knights have limited opponents well enough to allow 32 shots on target to the Oilers. He is also playing heavier minutes in April, which keeps his role in focus even as the earlier results against Vegas linger in the background.
Boeser gives Vancouver another angle. He has 44 points this season, ranking third on the team behind Filip Hronek and Elias Pettersson, and he has hit the over on points in five of his last seven appearances. He has collected eight points in that span and five in April alone. He also scored against Vegas at the end of March, a reminder that his recent production has come with a favorable recent head-to-head note. For a Canucks team that has gone over the game total in 13 of its last 20 games, the trend lines point toward offense again rather than a controlled, low-event night.
The one wrinkle is that Vegas has already shown it can suppress DeBrusk’s shot attempts, which makes Vancouver’s top-end scoring trends more important than his season-long volume. If the Canucks are going to cash in this matchup, Boeser’s recent finishing and DeBrusk’s heavier workload may matter more than the earlier meetings suggest.
