I simply said he is trending up now, I guess that is controversial.
No,
He WAS trending up
Jake and players like him are VERY volatile stocks, one game is about all the leeway they get, after two bad or "less than effective" games, the trend will go south,
And at the moment, after a glorious pre-season, Jake is once again trending down,
But there is a little more to the situation than that, and that little more is a whole lot of bizarre
- Put it this way, say I was secretly coaching the Canucks and Green was just a figurehead. And say someone came to me, one of my bosses, and said: "F**k Jake, fat boy with his roller hockey training system seems to think he's a big deal now that he's pre-season Gretzky, I don't think he's learned what happens when you embarrass the boss yet, but we're going to teach Beiber Buns a little respect, let him know who holds the two-for-one Mc Donald's coupons around here. We didn't sign all these Hockey-Hobos so they can fake injuries and drink aftershave down at Main and Hastings. This team is turning into a goddamn NHL welfare office! I want these useless mouth-breathers IN THE line-up, if all their gonna do this year is play grab-ass, then I want them doing it in a game ,and on the f**king ice! They threw a party in the locker room when Jake and Buck...Biff..whatever that other snot-nose's name is, had their little pre-season cup dynasty, their down there drinking aftershave chanting "Na-Na-na-na Hey-hey-hey, We're scratched!" F**k that! It's all Jake's fault he isn't even supposed to be here! I want that portly-poo-factory and his pretty boi besty...Bill...Boom...Boomer! Goddamn, that kid has a stupid name, tell Gudbransson to kick his ass in practice, and make sure you tape it, I wanna watch it by myself....anyway I want those two down in Utica, riding the pine wondering how it was they ever thought they were players! MAKE IT HAPPEN!"
Ok so, if that had happened in real life, I probably would have handled Brock and Jake (And not it seems even HORVAT?!?!) exactly how Green has been handling them.
In real life, I have NO IDEA why the Canucks are trying to sabotage their own prospects, it will take a few years before just how insanely stupid sitting Brock for the first two games was, I don't think Vancouver's collective brain could accept what they were seeing without rioting, so people have parroted the lame excuses as if they make sense.
But make no mistake, both Brock and Jake are being steered towards failure right now....again, "Why" I have no idea