Insider Reveals Canucks' Stance on Brock Boeser’s Future

Brock Boeser began the season looking like he could register a decent follow-up to his breakthrough 40-goal season last year. But that's changed since the calendar flipped. The pending unrestricted free agent is without a contract, and there is no word at all about extension talks with the Vancouver Canucks.

The team had stated earlier in the season that they'd like to wait this out to see how Boeser performs this season.

The Canucks, of course, are pretty busy these days trying to deal with the exasperating JT Miller/Elias Pettersson controversy and the associated trade talks for both star centers they are now engulfed in.

As for Boeser, he has 15 goals and 27 points in 36 games thus far and he has not played well of late.

Boeser has looked awful this road trip #Canucks
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The talk as the season began was that he was looking for an eight-year extension in the $8 million AAV range. It's certainly not clear that he is deserving of that at this point.

Insider Nick Kypreos of Sportsnet, in fact, feels that the Canucks don't want to take the chance of letting this play out down to season's end, and he puts it bluntly that Boeser's Canucks career after nine seasons may be coming to an end:

It's far more likely than not (that) Boeser gets traded before the deadline.

They could probably get a decent return for the player on the trade market from a team looking for some additional goal scoring.

But before all that, the Canucks would like to take care of the more pressing matter of their top two centers being at odds and dragging the team down with them. The team has nine goals total in their last six games, a stretch in which they've gone 1-4-1.