The veteran winger loves Vancouver but told Sportsnet that it’s unlikely he will remain a Canuck.
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Given how this season has gone off the ice for Brock Boeser, it’s not a surprise to hear the Vancouver Canucks winger conclude that his time in B.C. may be up.
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Last week I asked Boeser if he’d thought about how this might be the last two weeks of his time in Vancouver and he said, essentially, he was trying not to, that he just wanted to finish the season on a high note.
But with a few more days to reflect, he was a little more willing to entertain the question of whether his future remains in Vancouver.
“Honestly, it’s unlikely at this point,” he has now admitted to Sportsnet’s Iain MacIntyre.
“It sucks, it’s unfortunate. I’m just trying to play good hockey, and then I’ll worry about everything after that. We all know it’s been a roller coaster of a year. There’s been a lot of different things.”
Those things, you know, are the way the team has not exactly publicly endorsed him this season, which culminated in how GM Patrik Allvin framed the response around the league to Boeser’s availability in trade talks.
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“If I told you what I was offered for Brock Boeser, I think I would have to run out of here,” Allvin said at the trade deadline, “because you would not believe me.”
It was hardly an endorsement of a player who scored 40 goals last year and then seven more in the playoffs, who has scored at a consistent 30 goals-per-season across his entire career.
The comments landed badly with Boeser and you can understand why. You’d hope your boss would talk you up publicly, rather than saw “well, no one really wanted him.”
And it’s clear that negotiations to this point on an extension have gone nowhere. There’s obviously a big difference between how the team sees Boeser as a player and how Boeser sees himself.
All this said, the door is clearly not closed. Even Boeser’s choice of words — “unlikely” — leaves the door open. He’s been very open about his love for Vancouver, what the fans especially have meant to him. This is where he’s become an adult, where he’s learned to be a professional. The city that supported him through personal tragedy. He has a true sentimental attachment to the place.
Those around him will tell you that in his heart, even with the frustrations he’s felt with management, he still wants to stay.
And the Canucks themselves are in a real pickle. In the end they do need NHL players. Boeser may not be an out and out star but he’s still a very good player and guy who knows how to score goals.
Do not be shocked if the Canucks make another push to sign him before free agency starts — but also don’t be surprised if Boeser chooses to take a look at what’s out there in free agency.
In hockey you just never say never until it’s over.
pjohnston@postmedia.com
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