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It’s been a tale of three seasons in one for Canucks’ Boeser in 2025-26
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Jeff Paterson
Mar 13, 2026, 15:30 EDTUpdated: Mar 13, 2026, 15:28 EDT
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It’s been a season that has played out in three acts for Brock Boeser.
Two years removed from a 40-goal campaign, the veteran Vancouver Canucks winger has had three distinct chapters to the 2025-26 season. In two of the three segments, Boeser has demonstrated his ability to score at a rate comparable to that of his career-best season just 24 months ago. Yet somehow, sandwiched between his two goal-scoring spurts was the longest goal drought of his nine-year National Hockey League career.
With his 16th goal of the season to open the scoring in Thursday’s 4-3 shootout win over the Nashville Predators, Boeser continued to hold the hot hand, netting his fourth goal in the past five outings. Beyond that, Boeser has seven goals in his last 14 games, which includes a return from a concussion suffered late in a January 25th game against the Pittsburgh Penguins. That’s an encouraging sign that Boeser, in the first year of a seven-year $50.75M contract extension, has regained his scoring touch so quickly after being forced to the sidelines with a head injury for a second straight season.
Another encouraging sign is that Boeser seems to be finding some chemistry with linemates Marco Rossi and Liam Öhgren. In fact, Rossi has the primary assist on three of Boeser’s last four goals. And as a healthy Rossi starts to find his form as a playmaker, Boeser will likely continue to benefit over the team’s final 17 games. 
What makes Boeser’s season so bizarre is that he got off to a fine start, too. Despite a lack of centre depth, Boeser got off to a red-hot start to the season, scoring in each of the first two goals and three of the first four. And by the time he found the back of the net in a November 11th home game against the Winnipeg Jets, the 29-year-old had opened the season with eight goals in the team’s first 16 games and was on that familiar 40-goal pace.
Then things started to slow down. Boeser didn’t score again until a 3-2 loss to the San Jose Sharks on November 28th, and then things turned dark. Really dark. The goal against the Sharks was the last one Boeser scored for a remarkable 21 games before he cashed in on a power play against the Columbus Blue Jackets on January 15th. And starting with that goal against the Blue Jackets, Boeser has been the most productive marksman on the team over the past two months.
At the moment, and with his current rush of offence, Boeser leads the current roster in goals with 16 on the season, one ahead of Drew O’Connor and two in front of Jake DeBrusk. Somehow, despite not playing for the team since January 10th, Kiefer Sherwood still leads the Canucks in goals this season with 17. That likely won’t last much longer.
The splits in Boeser’s shooting percentage this season are wild. He scored eight times on the first 39 shots he took (20.5%). Then went ice cold, scoring just once on his next 55 shots (1.8%) before rallying with seven goals on his last 35 shots (20%). He’s a career 14% shooter, so the two hot streaks this season have exceeded his career norms, but it’s hard to explain the mid-season plummet. Boeser took a two-game personal leave of absence in mid-October, and, of course, team turmoil took hold, leading to captain Quinn Hughes being peddled in mid-December. In and around all of that, he often found himself playing with a variety of centres who simply didn’t measure up offensively at the NHL level.
While his overall goal totals are nowhere close to his best seasons in the NHL, Boeser still has a chance to push for 25 goals for a second straight season. With 17 games to go, he’d need to pick up his current pace slightly to score the nine goals he needs to get there.
With Rossi heating up, it’s possible Brock Boeser could stay hot over the final month of the schedule. Then again, the way the season has gone for both Boeser individually and the Canucks as a whole, another cold snap could very well be in the offing. Boeser will do everything in his power to make sure that isn’t the case.
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