Armchair Scout
Brock Boeser

Photo by Minda Haas Kuhlmann from Omaha, CC BY 2.0

Brock Boeser

Vancouver Canucks Right Wing #6

Minus forty-eight — the worst figure in the National Hockey League.

SeasonGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2025-2675222648-48861316613.319:03
Career629226256482-8115079231161114.018:25

Last Season

Twenty-two goals and 26 assists in 75 games — 48 points, minus-48, at 19:03 a night with six power-play goals and only eight penalty minutes.

His 629th career game and his 482nd point.

The Finesse Game

The shot is still genuinely good — a heavy, accurate release that has produced 226 career goals.

Two hundred and thirty-nine unblocked attempts, 23 goals, median 26 feet with 34 per cent from inside twenty. That is a fair chart and a fair conversion; there is nothing wrong with the shooting.

Twenty-six assists in 75 games is the honest limit of the playmaking.

The Physical Game

Six foot one, 208, and among the least physically engaged forwards in the league. Eight penalty minutes in 75 games is one of the lowest rates in this edition.

He does not forecheck, does not finish checks, and is moved off the puck routinely at a weight that should not allow it.

The Intangibles

Minus-48. That is the worst plus-minus figure in the National Hockey League and the worst in this book by seven goals.

Underneath it: 41 per cent of the expected goals, second percentile, and 44.3 per cent of the shot attempts, eighth, across 1,041 minutes, with the goals 36 for and 57 against and the chances 36.5 to 52.6.

So this is not one of those plus-minus figures that a page can explain away. Vancouver conceded 210 goals at five-on-five, the most in the league, and Boeser was on the ice for more of them than anybody.

Eleven points in his last ten, five of them goals. He is 29, and scoring twenty-two goals is now the only thing on this page that is going right.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1041 minutes

Expected goals
41%
2nd pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
44.3%
8th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 36 for, 57 against. Expected: 36.5 and 52.6.

The eye and the numbers

Report
70
Numbers
2

The numbers are colder on him than this report is — worth asking who he played with, and against whom.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

11

points in his last 10 games — 5 goals, 6 assists, 27 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1041 minutes at five-on-five

Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

239 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 23 of them goals. His median goal came from 18 feet. 35% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.