Mar 18, 2025; Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN; Vancouver Canucks forward Brock Boeser (6) skates out as the game’s first star against the Winnipeg Jets at Rogers Arena. Mandatory Credit: Bob Frid-Imagn Images [https://deweb-519a7.b-cdn.net/post-images/261f9a58-387e-4a48-9755-4d8c890ff95a.jpeg] Mar 18, 2025; Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN; Vancouver Canucks forward Brock Boeser (6) skates out as the game’s first star against the Winnipeg Jets at Rogers Arena. Mandatory Credit: Bob Frid-Imagn Images This past week, reports [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/vancouver-canucks/latest-news/report-boeser-unlikely-to-return-to-the-canucks-in-2025-26] emerged that Vancouver Canucks [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/vancouver-canucks] forward Brock Boeser is “unlikely” to return to the organization after the end of this season. A career Canuck, Boeser was drafted 23rd overall by Vancouver in the 2015 NHL Draft and has spent the past 10 years [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/vancouver-canucks/10-years-of-brock-looking-back-at-brock-boesers-time-as-a-canuck] as a member of the hockey club. Whether or not this ends up being Boeser’s last dance with the Canucks, he has brought fans hope and entertainment all throughout his time with the team. Let’s take a look at each of Boeser’s NHL seasons described in less than four words. Latest From THN’s Vancouver Canucks Site [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/vancouver-canucks/]: Canucks Quinn Hughes Nominated For The 2025 King Clancy Trophy [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/vancouver-canucks/latest-news/canucks-quinn-hughes-nominated-for-the-2025-king-clancy-trophy] Top Five At 15: The Final Five Canucks, April 2025 [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/vancouver-canucks/latest-news/top-five-at-15-the-final-five-april-2025] Canucks Kudryavtsev & Tolopilo To Make NHL Debuts Against The Sharks [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/vancouver-canucks/latest-news/canucks-kudryavtsev-tolopilo-to-make-nhl-debuts-against-the-sharks] 2016–17: INSTILLING HOPE IN DEBUT Boeser made his NHL debut on March 25, 2017, in his home state against the Minnesota Wild. He scored a goal in his first game with the Canucks, and proceeded to put up three more to round out his first nine games in the NHL. What may be most important about his debut, however, is the hope that he instilled in the Canucks franchise. With the Sedin twins’ contracts expiring at the end of the 2017–18 season, Boeser provided fans with something to be excited about for the future. 2017–18: ALL-STAR WEEKEND In his rookie season, Boeser made a name for himself by placing second in voting for the Calder Memorial Trophy with 29 goals and 26 assists in 62 games played. However, what may have been even more impressive is his performance at the 2018 NHL All-Star Weekend. He won the shooting accuracy competition during the skills contest portion of the weekend, beating out players such as Steven Stamkos, Brad Marchand, and Sidney Crosby with a time of 11.136 seconds. In the second part of the weekend, he scored two goals and one assist, earning him the title of All-Star Game MVP. 2018–19: “ENJOY THE FUTURE FOLKS” This part isn’t as focused on Boeser specifically, instead emphasizing the direction of the team itself. Boeser and rookie Elias Pettersson found chemistry early on, playing a total of 867:19 together throughout the 2018–19 season. Quinn Hughes made his NHL debut towards the end of the season, nabbing his first NHL point on a goal scored by Boeser. During the overtime frame of Hughes’ first game, Boeser, Pettersson, and Hughes all took the ice as one unit. This moment showed fans a glimpse at what the future held for the Canucks organization. As Sportsnet’s John Shorthouse [https://www.reddit.com/r/canucks/comments/b6t58d/enjoy_the_future_folks_here_it_is_right_now/] put it best, “enjoy the future folks, here it is right now.” 2019–20: DOMINATING WITH LOTTO LINE During the 2019 off-season, the Canucks acquired forward J.T. Miller via trade. When put together, Miller, Boeser, and Pettersson formed the “Lotto Line,” named after BC’s Lotto 649. The trio played 659:39 minutes together all season and put up a corsi-for of 858. While the line has since been vanquished with the departure of Miller, their legacy within Canucks history is still a fun one to look back on. 2020–21: CANUCKS’ LEADING SCORER The 2021 NHL season, shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was only 56 games long. While the Canucks as a whole didn’t have a great season, individually speaking, Boeser provided the fans with lots to talk about. He led the team in scoring with 23 goals and 26 assists, a pace that would put him at 34 goals and 72 points in an 82-game season. This would have been a new career high for him. 2021–22: SUCCESS PLAYING UNDER BOUDREAU Boeser’s 2021–22 season got off to a bit of a poor start, as he only had four goals and six assists in his first 22 games of the season. However, after the Canucks cleaned house, replacing former Head Coach Travis Green with Bruce Boudreau and former General Manager Jim Benning with President of Hockey Operations Jim Rutherford, his offensive production grew. He had five goals in his first six games under Boudreau, and finished the season with 19 goals in 49 games under the team’s new coach. 2022–23: BEGINNING OF A REBOUND After having three straight seasons with less than 50 points, Boeser experienced a slight rebound in 2022–23. In 74 games played, the most of his career in a single season at the time, he put up 55 points. While it took him until November 18 to score his first goal of this season, he continued to score at a pretty consistent pace, capped off by a goal streak of three straight games from March 25 to March 28. 2023–24: GAME 4 HAT TRICK The 2023–24 season was a massive one for Boeser, who was easily one of the team’s best players this year. Shooting at a ridiculous success rate of nearly 20%, Boeser registered his first 40-goal season and added an extra 33 assists on top. He began the season with a four-goal game against the Edmonton Oilers [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/edmonton-oilers/] and put up eight other multi-goal regular season games including two other hat tricks. He was also named to his second NHL All-Star Weekend. The postseason was when Boeser took the biggest steps, as he potted seven goals and five assists in 12 games played. Arguably his most meaningful game of the entire season was in the Canucks’ game 4 matchup against the Nashville Predators [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/nashville-predators/] in the first round of playoffs. In this effort, Boeser put up his first career postseason hat trick to help Vancouver make a 4–3 [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/vancouver-canucks/game-day/canucks-mount-historic-comeback-in-game-4-win-over-the-predators] overtime comeback. 2024–25: 200 NHL GOALS For the Canucks as a whole, the 2024–25 season didn’t quite live up to the expectations of the last. Boeser wasn’t the only one to see a drop in offensive production, but despite this, he’s still on track to finish the season as one of the team’s top goal scorers. During one of his best games this season, against the St. Louis Blues [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/st-louis-blues/] on March 20, he scored two goals including a buzzer-beater to send the match to overtime. During this game, he also scored his 200th career NHL goal [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/vancouver-canucks/latest-news/brock-boeser-becomes-ninth-player-in-canucks-history-to-record-200-goals] — a feat only completed nine times in franchise history. If this truly is Boeser’s last season as a Canuck, then fans will want to be at Rogers Arena on Thursday night as the Canucks take on the Vegas Golden Knights [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/vegas-golden-knights/]. Since this is the team’s final game of the 2024–25 season, it may be fans’ last chance to watch Boeser in the Canucks’ blue and green. Puck drop is scheduled for 7:00 pm PT. Make sure you bookmark THN's Vancouver Canucks site and add us to your favourites on Google News [https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMK-q0gsw7sXpAw/sections/CAQqEAgAKgcICjCvqtILMO7F6QMwr-DfCA?hl=en-CA&gl=CA&ceid=CA%3Aen] for the latest news, exclusive interviews, breakdowns, and so much more. Also, be sure to leave a comment at the bottom of the page and engage with other passionate fans through our forum. The Hockey News [https://deweb-519a7.b-cdn.net/post-images/954146b8-0a5a-4926-8251-9d9d6688a825.jpeg] The Hockey News
