After signing a new three-year, $19.95MM contract this summer, there was plenty of excitement around a potential bounce-back season for Brock Boeser and the Vancouver Canucks. Unfortunately, his debut will have to wait, as Boeser suffered a hand injury at practice on Saturday and underwent surgery today. He is out for three to four weeks.
The 2021-22 season was something of a disappointment for Boeser, who dealt with injury and the death of his father. He still scored 23 goals in 71 games, but his 46 points were the worst per-game pace of his career. With contract security in tow, it seemed likely that he could make it back to the dynamic offensive piece he was in years past.
Now, with another training camp disrupted by injury, it’s not clear what the Canucks will receive from Boeser for the first part of the year at least. A hand injury is certainly not what you want to hear for a player that relies so much on his shot, but hopefully, the three-week timeline has him back on the ice after missing just a few games.
With Boeser out – and Ilya Mikheyev, who is still being evaluated – there will be some minutes up for grabs in the top six. General manager Jim Rutherford did tell Rick Dhaliwal of CHEK TV today that Nils Hoglander has impressed him, and that Andrei Kuzmenko still has some adjustments to make with the North American game.
This guy is Sami Salo reincarnated
Poor guy has the injury bug and the worst luck. I foresee a disappointing short career for Brock…sadly…just can’t stay off of IR
If you can handle Brock playing 50-60 games per year, go for it, but he’s gonna miss a lot of games including playoffs.
He missed the play-offs even when he was in the game! LOL
John, you seem to believe, mistakenly, that you are a funny guy. One giveaway that you are not is feeling the need to laugh at your own posts. On a positive note, many of your hockey takes are funny although it would seem that most of those are of the unintentionally funny variety. Play on.