Boeser's lack of speed and two way game, injury history, and contract have put him in the "do not want" category, for me. Dumba makes less than him, and his contract will be up at the end of the year, whereas Boeser's contract will be around like a bad smell for the next two years after this one, right in the middle of our cap hell.
Only way I take him is if VAN retains. Unfortunately, we don't really have a bad contract we can send the other way.
This, from the HFB Canuck's board.
He's had 2 foot injuries, 2 hand injuries, a back injury, upper body injury and an arm injury in his career. The back injury in 2018 at the hands of Clutterbuck seemed to really effect his skating; and then the arm/hand injuries really screwed his lethal shot he had.
and this,
The trouble with Boeser is that if he isn't scoring, he's almost a complete liability in other areas. He's not very physical along the wall, and has real trouble winning puck battles in his own zone. And he isn't generating enough speed through the neutral zone to threaten any d-man.
He used to be a fixture on the PP....but he's been supplanted by Miller, Horvat, Kuzmenko and even Mikheyev. He's primarily a one-trick pony, but he simply isn't finding the time and space to get his shot off.
and this,
I don't know if it was the back injury, but his skating has gotten so bad that he is useless now. He can't defend because he can't get there in time, and he can't score because he doesn't have enough time to get his shot off, and on top of that, his wrist is finished and can't shoot it anything like what he used to. He has 9 points in 11 games, and is a -9. Guy is a liability that skates in slow motion, I don't know how any professional scout could watch him play and think he could actually help their team. Our 4th liners are more impactful.
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and this,
Whatever injury he had that effected his lower body mobility in 2018/2019 was reaggravated in 2021 and has gotten progressively worse.
Not only can he not move. His wrist/hand is permanently seized. There's been numerous sightings of a heavily taped up wrist over the past few years and apparently the guy had his wrist heavily taped up in Toronto. It hasn't gotten better.
He will get by on getting secondary points but the reality is this that this might be his last contract before he's done in the NHL.
It goes on, and on. Boeser might have 15 points, but only 4 goals. Do we really want to saddle Boldy(and the team) with this guy? Finally,
The fact that Brock Boeser was dynamic 5 years ago in the fall of 2017 isn't making his value close to Fiala's in 2022 after Fiala put up 85 points.
Most of these points were not put up by Boeser "haters" but rather by fans of Boeser who are saddened by what he and his game has turned into. Buyer beware!
