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Brock Boeser

Vancouver Canucks Right Wing

25 goals and a minus-25, in the last season of a contract he re-signed in the summer.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2016-17VAN9415002012516.016:13
2017-18VAN62292655-516100417916.217:30
2018-19VAN69263056-22260320912.419:10
2019-20VAN57162945+4145031699.518:34
2020-21VAN56232649-31681114116.319:19
2021-22VAN71232346-520110619511.818:36
2022-23VAN74183755-202460317810.117:14
2023-24VAN81403373+2314160420419.618:36
2024-25VAN75252550-251690314517.218:10
2025-26 so far
Career554204230434-3314273128144514.118:20

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

25 goals and 25 assists in 75 games — 50 points at 18:10 a night, minus-25, the worst figure on the club, with 9 power-play goals on 145 shots, converting at 17.2 per cent.

48.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 36th percentile. His ice went 41-38 against an expectation of 36.15-38.36 — five goals better than expected for and level against, which does not look like a minus-25 and says the damage was done away from five-on-five.

The Finesse Game

145 attempts at a median of 30 feet with 31 per cent from inside 20, converting at 17.2 per cent — a very high rate from that distance. The release is the reason he has been in the league for nine years: it is quick, it is heavy, and it goes where he intends.

25 assists. The passing is fine and the skating is the limitation; he does not beat a defenceman wide and he has never had to.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 208 and he does not use it. He does not forecheck with force, he does not win pucks on the wall, and 16 penalty minutes in 75 games is a winger who is barely in that half of the game.

He takes a hit to make a play and does not answer it. The physical game has never been part of the appeal and he has scored 40 goals in a season without it.

The Intangibles

Twenty-third overall in 2015 and 554 games and 434 points, all of it here, including a 40-goal season in 2023-24.

He is 28. He was the subject of trade speculation for two full seasons, went to free agency, and re-signed in the summer — which is the club’s clearest statement about who it intends to keep.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 996 minutes

Expected goals
48.5%
36th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
48.8%
40th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 41 for, 38 against. Expected: 36.1 and 38.4.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
49th
Numbers
36th

The two rank him within 13 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.

Both bars are percentiles among the 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 72 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 996 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.

Why the numbers land there

Five-on-five, 2024-25

The club
VAN took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.5% — 0.6 below the club he did it on.
The role
First line, 996 minutes at five-on-five — 60th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Quinn Hughes52.1%45.4%54.1%
Jake DeBrusk52.5%45.6%44.1%
J.T. Miller54.0%45.1%47.3%

52.1% together, 45.4% for him apart and 54.1% for Hughes apart. He was worse away from Hughes, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Hughes did.

Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

223 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 25 of them goals. His median goal came from 18 feet. 31% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 25% from beyond forty.