{"id":129503,"date":"2022-07-01T18:25:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T22:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=129503"},"modified":"2022-07-01T18:28:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T22:28:17","slug":"brock-boeser-re-signed-canucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/07\/01\/brock-boeser-re-signed-canucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Boeser and Vancouver Canucks Reach Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vancouver Canucks made a big deal today and re-signed restricted free agent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/boesebr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brock Boeser<\/a>. News of the deal broke early Friday evening and the contract is for three years and for $19.95 million. The average value works out to $6.65 million per season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vancouver Canucks General Manager Patrik Allvin announced today that the club has agreed to terms with right wing Brock Boeser on a 3-year contract worth 6.65 million per season.<\/p>\n<p>DETAILS | <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wusC1EfQ6a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/wusC1EfQ6a<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BLSMvmicHw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/BLSMvmicHw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Canucks\/status\/1542996707499159552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Brock Boeser Re-Signed to Deal<\/h2>\n<p>The Vancouver Canucks will be going into the 2022-23 season with the only major question mark on the team resolved. This was a pinch point in the young forward&#8217;s career, with an escalating contract leading to a $7.5 million qualifying offer. Between that high price, the COVID-limited cap, and a team that needs to find room, there were valid questions about where Boeser fit in the Canucks&#8217; salary map.<\/p>\n<p>They couldn&#8217;t justify paying him more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/petteel01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elias Pettersson<\/a>&#8216;s $7.35 million over any kind of term. It would be hard to get any decent trade return, given that qualifier. The only real option was signing him &#8211; but for how much and how long was a gordian knot with a time limit.<\/p>\n<p>That they reached a $6.65 million per season deal for the next three years. It is a relief for all concerned, including the fans. Now he just has to live up to it.<\/p>\n<h3>The Lead-Up<\/h3>\n<p>The Vancouver Canucks had one pressing contract to deal with this offseason. Yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lammiju01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juho Lammikko<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/highmma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matthew Highmore<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dipiemi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael DiPietro<\/a> were also RFAs, but really <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/05\/17\/the-brock-boeser-contract-question\/\" target=\"_self\">all the attention<\/a> was on Boeser. And for good reason: no one knows exactly how his future is going to go. Boeser, despite his drop to just 23 goals and 46 points this year, is a top-line NHL player.<\/p>\n<p>His expected goals per 60 minutes rating was the highest on the team last season. Yes, he&#8217;s a streaky scorer, but his year-by-year numbers are remarkably consistent. He&#8217;s had <a href=\"https:\/\/theprovince.com\/sports\/hockey\/nhl\/vancouver-canucks\/canucks-brock-boeser-says-his-final-goodbye-to-his-father-duke\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">brutal losses<\/a> in his personal life and has played through it all with immaculate grace. And he&#8217;s just 25 years old. He&#8217;s been through the fires and may come out the other side more determined than ever.<\/p>\n<p>He has the skill and potential to blow past the 30-goal mark he&#8217;s never quite reached in any single season yet. He&#8217;s played at a 30-goal pace over his career, but injuries and, well, the last two years have conspired to shorten his seasons.<\/p>\n<h3>The Payoff<\/h3>\n<p>One of the benefits of getting the deal done is having a little more payroll certainty. General manager Patrik Allvin has plenty of juggling to do over the next year, and not worrying about Brock Boeser will help. Of course, a trade deal might still come during the season, but at least now his value is visible.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"D4WTf-3nQXpCLADjxoHFvQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1240365581\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'D4WTf-3nQXpCLADjxoHFvQ',sig:'3Sf3MMBXJM0QxgvRu7qhU7r__MXzYCXA_Iicj69JUXI=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1240365581',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vancouver Canucks made a big deal today and re-signed restricted free agent Brock Boeser. News of the deal broke early Friday evening and the contract is for three years and for $19.95 million. The average value works out to $6.65 million per season. Vancouver Canucks General Manager Patrik Allvin announced today that the club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3171,"featured_media":129540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,4547,34,4548],"tags":[1452,932,955,7127,158,5820],"class_list":["post-129503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canucks","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-brock-boeser","tag-elias-pettersson","tag-nhl-news","tag-patrik-allvin","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-vancouver-canucks-news"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}