Report: Canucks WERE Offered A 1st-Rounder for Boeser, But It Was 'Too Late'

As the fallout from the trade deadline continues to filter in, we're finding out that Vancouver Canucks' GM Patrik Allvin might not have been completely forthcoming about what transpired on the Brock Boeser front at the trade deadline on Friday.

Allvin, you'll recall, blurted out to the media afterwards that he was getting lowballed on offers for the pending UFA Boeser, and was too embarrassed to even mention them to the media.

But a report from insider Rick Dhaliwal on Monday suggests that the Carolina Hurricanes did make an offer of a first-round pick for Boeser—which is what Allvin was looking for— but it came in just minutes before the 12 noon Pacific time deadline, and it was too late.

Some say that (Canes GM Eric) Tulsky called Vancouver within the last half hour of the deadline and offered up one of the two first round picks from the (Mikko) Rantanen deal (with Dallas).

But there wasn't enough time left on the clock. Why? Because the Canucks had insisted all along that they did not want to weaken the current roster in the event they moved Boeser, so it stands to reason that they needed another solid contributor coming in to replace him.

The problem was, with Dallas taking all day to work out the contract talks with Rantanen to get the trade with the Hurricanes confirmed, there just wasn't enough time left for the Canucks by the time the Canes got back to them dangling that pick. At that late hour, just before the deadline, and with only a first-round pick coming back from Carolina, the Canucks didn't have time to try to find a good roster player elsewhere.

Other potential reasons may have entered into play as well as to why the Canucks refused the Hurricanes' offer of a first-rounder:

The Canucks had made another extension offer to Boeser late in the week, per Dhaliwal (a "last-second stab" at re-signing him). So maybe the team decided that they would rather still work on re-signing Boeser rather than take the first-rounder.
Maybe they just didn't like the pick that Carolina was offering.

Boeser, a 40-goal scorer in 2023-24 with 73 points, has just 18 goals and 20 assists for 38 points through 56 games this season.

He's spent all nine of his NHL seasons in Vancouver after they made him a first-round pick in the 2015 Draft. He's on pace for his 6th 20-goal campaign.

He has said repeatedly that he wants to stay in B.C., but after the events of the last week or so—another unsatisfactory extension offer and the comments from Allvin about his reduced value—it remains to be seen if he still feels the same. We'll know by July 1st.