It was an emotional season for all of the Vancouver Canucks, but it may not have been as challenging for anybody than Brock Boeser.
Riding the high of a 40-goal campaign, Boeser was excited to prove he can replicate it heading into 2024-2025 and earn that lucrative contract extension. And that’s how the year started for him, producing at a point-per-game pace. However, an injury and the trade of his long-time running mate at the midway point of the season led to a step back, rather than a step forward.
Let’s dive into the season that could have been for the longest-tenured Canuck, Brock Boeser:

Brock Boeser’s Season

What better way to roll over a career year than a two-goal first period on opening night against the Calgary Flames? These two goals gave him six goals in the last two opening nights.
Let’s all just forget what happened after that period…
Boeser was able to string that hot start throughout the rest of October – or should we say Brocktober – as he finished the month as a point-per-game, with nine points (five goals and four assists) in nine games. This point total was good for a share of the team lead in points with centreman JT Miller.
His November was cut short after a blindside hit to the head at the tail end of their California road trip in Los Angeles.
Boeser grabs the puck in the neutral zone and skates to centre before sending a pass back to the defender. Los Angeles Kings forward Tanner Jeannot picks up speed from his own zone and targets an unsuspecting Boeser at centre ice. Jeannot throws his shoulder into Boeser’s head, knocking him to the ice. Trainers came out to check on Boeser, who was able to leave the ice under his own power.
The Canucks winger suffered a concussion and was force to miss the following seven games (just under three weeks). His team missed him, as the club went 3-4 in his absence.
Once Boeser returned, he was met with unfamiliarity as his long-time linemate, JT Miller, was in the midst of his leave of absence. Coming back from a concussion and now without Miller, Boeser would struggle, not scoring until his sixth game back. He did pick up some assists, however, finishing with one goal and six assists before Miller returned eight games later.
And even when Miller returned, the duo struggled. They would connect on a second period goal in their first game back together, in what was Boeser’s 500th game, all with the Canucks. After that, however, Boeser would be held pointless for four straight games. This was Boeser’s longest pointless streak of the season.
But then it started to turn around. And nothing gets you back in the goal column like a wicked pass from Quinn Hughes:
Boeser would later tie the game late in the third period for his 10th goal in his 28th game.
This sparked a four-game goal streak for Boeser, where he tallied six in total. The slump then continued, where he had one goal and one assist in the following eight games. The Canucks in general struggled as they went 2-4-2 down the stretch to start the new calendar year.
It was odd for Boeser because the sniper truly wasn’t himself. The noise surrounding the Elias Pettersson/JT Miller rift was at an all-time high, and it started trickling down to the locker room and started affecting the players. For whatever reason, Boeser lost his shooting touch. He registered just 10 shots through that stretch and finished with a minus-3 rating.
Knowing the end was near for him and his linemate, they went on one final point streak together, scoring 12 points between the two in six games. But then, it all came crashing down when Miller was traded to the New York Rangers on January 31.
Now with just over a month until the trade deadline, Boeser still had things to prove to Canucks management in order to prove he was worth the lengthy contract he sought after. But that isn’t what happened.
After the trade, Boeser struggled to find chemistry with a new centreman. He bounced up and down the lineup, even spending time outside of the top six. In the 11 games until the trade deadline, Boeser had two goals and two assists with a minus-9 rating.
With 18 goals and 37 points through 54 games, Boeser didn’t necessarily entice contenders that he would be an asset worth trading for for their postseason runs. Canucks general manager Patrik Allvin went as far to say, “If I told you what I was offered for Brock Boeser, I think I would have to run out of here because you would not believe me,” when asked what offers he received for Boeser.
While there was some buzz around Boeser potentially being traded to the Carolina Hurricanes, complications with the Mikko Rantanen trade held up business for Carolina, so they were not able to pull the trade off.
After hearing your general manager say that about you, it doesn’t necessarily build your confidence. And those struggles continued after the trade deadline, where he would add just one assist and another minus-6 to his totals in six games.
The struggles would last 18 games, where Boeser scored just two goals and five points, and finished that stretch with a minus-15 rating. It appeared that the writing was on the wall that Boeser would not be returning to Vancouver after this.
However, this seemed to relieve the stress for Boeser, as he went on yet another goal-scoring streak, and when the games mattered most: in the final push for the playoffs.
Boeser scored two goals on the runaway Vezina favourite Connor Hellebuyck, priming himself for one of the biggest games of the season against the team they were chasing in the standings, the St. Louis Blues.
The Burnsville, Minnesota native gave the Canucks the lead in the third period, only for the Canucks to give the Blues back the lead before the halfway point. But then Boeser scored the most memorable goal of the Canucks’ season, with four seconds remaining:
Every Canucks fan probably remembers where they were when he scored that goal and the excitement they felt.
He would score another third period goal the following game against his old friend Miller and the Rangers. This brought his totals to five goals in his previous three games, but the team could only pick up three of a possible six points.
With just a glimmer of hope left in their playoff lives, Boeser would finish as a 0.5 point-per-game through the 12 remaining games, as the Canucks finished six points behind the Blues for the last playoff spot.

The Final Stats

Here are Boeser’s final stats for the 2024-2025 season:
His 25 goals and 50 points were a 15-goal and 23-point decrease from the following season. He ranked top 15 in goals and in the top 45 in points last season, which dropped to 78th in goals and 127th in points this season.
These goal and point totals were not what Boeser wanted coming off a career year, especially not when he was due for a massive raise had he replicated his success.
But with the concussion, the drama surrounding the team, his linemate being traded, the trade rumours, the degrading comments from his general manager and playing for a contract, there were a lot of reasons that could have amounted to such a difficult season for the player.
As we turn the page and look toward next season, fans might have to do the same if a contract extension cannot be met with the longest-tenured Vancouver Canuck, Brock Boeser.
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