{"id":68083,"date":"2020-02-09T17:01:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T22:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=68083"},"modified":"2020-02-09T17:01:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T22:01:13","slug":"vancouver-canucks-brock-boeser-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/02\/09\/vancouver-canucks-brock-boeser-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks Brock Boeser Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canucks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> announced that forward <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/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><\/strong> is sidelined at least for the next two games with an upper-body injury and will then be reassessed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Coach Green says Brock Boeser will be out the next two games and then the team will reassess.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vancouver #Canucks (@Canucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Canucks\/status\/1226607508262768640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Brock Boeser Injured<\/h2>\n<p>Canucks forward Brock Boeser left Saturday&#8217;s game in the third period after getting tangled up with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/flames\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Calgary Flames<\/a>&#8216; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mangian01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Mangiapane<\/a><\/strong>. Head coach Travis Green told the media after the game that Boeser will be out of the lineup for a little bit. For the time being it is at least two games. it could be much longer once he is reevaluated.<\/p>\n<p>Boeser is Vancouver&#8217;s third-highest scorer this year with 16 goals and 45 points, tying him with Captain <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/horvabo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bo Horvat<\/a><\/strong>. He was also third in overall scoring last season and led the team in his rookie year.<\/p>\n<p>Injuries have kept him from reaching 30 goals in any season, however. He missed 16 games to a back injury late in 2017-18, and eleven with a groin injury last year. Fans have to hope this isn&#8217;t going to be a recurring theme for his career.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>The normally reliable Boeser has been having a difficult time scoring lately. He is currently on an eleven-game goal drought, registering just two assists in that time. For several games, he had switched lines with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/virtaja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake Virtanen<\/a><\/strong>, but that experiment came to an end with little to show on Boeser&#8217;s part.<\/p>\n<p>Ideally, the injury is a mild one, keeping him out for only a couple of games. But even if it keeps him from playing for an extended period, maybe it will provide a reset of sorts. Boeser is shooting a career-low 9.6% so far, contributing to a power-play that seems to have run aground lately.<\/p>\n<p>Even with that, the Canucks can&#8217;t spare one of their top threats in a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2020\/01\/14\/western-conference-playoff-race-tightening-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tight playoff race<\/a>. The Canucks already have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/baileju01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justin Bailey<\/a> called up from Utica, but there&#8217;s no chance the AHL player will be starting on their top line. Most likely Virtanen will return to the top line, rejoining <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/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><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/millejt01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">J.T. Miller<\/a><\/strong> while Bailey skates in the bottom-six.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_68107\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68107\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68107\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/02\/gettyimages-1188739276-594x594-1.jpg\" alt=\"Brock Boeser\" width=\"594\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/02\/gettyimages-1188739276-594x594-1.jpg 594w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/02\/gettyimages-1188739276-594x594-1-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">VANCOUVER, BC &#8211; NOVEMBER 16: Brock Boeser\u00a0#6 of the Vancouver Canucks skates with the puck during NHL action against the Colorado Avalanche at Rogers Arena on November 16, 2019 in Vancouver, Canada. (Photo by Rich Lam\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vancouver Canucks announced that forward Brock Boeser is sidelined at least for the next two games with an upper-body injury and will then be reassessed. Coach Green says Brock Boeser will be out the next two games and then the team will reassess. \u2014 Vancouver #Canucks (@Canucks) February 9, 2020 Brock Boeser Injured Canucks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3171,"featured_media":68107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[26,34],"tags":[3576,1452,158],"class_list":["post-68083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canucks","category-news","tag-andrew-mangiapane","tag-brock-boeser","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"modified_by":"Jim Biringer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68083","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=68083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}