The Canucks are in the quiet stretch of the offseason now, with the draft done and the free-agent scramble mostly settled. Vancouver could still listen on veteran trade possibilities, but a busy transaction summer does not appear to be coming. That makes this a good time to zoom out and look at where key players could land in the franchise record book next season.
Brock Boeser is already sitting eighth all-time in Canucks scoring, and that spot probably isn’t going anywhere. He has 482 career points, which puts him 26 behind Elias Pettersson.
That’s a moving target, and it means Boeser would need a big jump just to move up one spot. To catch Thomas Gradin at sixth, he would need 68 more points, and that would put him right near the 73-point peak he set in 2023-24.
That remains the only season in his 10-year NHL career where he has cleared 60 points.
The more realistic climb for Boeser is on the goal-scoring side, where he has been a steady finisher for Vancouver. He has 226 goals and needs 14 more to pass Henrik Sedin for seventh place.
Add another 10 after that, and he would draw even with Tony Tanti at 250. A 28-goal season would move Boeser past Pavel Bure into fifth place, while 36 goals would pull him into a tie with Stan Smyl for fourth at 262.
There’s another scoring category where Boeser is already on the doorstep. His next power-play goal would push him into the top five in franchise history. He enters the season tied with Todd Bertuzzi at 79, and the only names ahead of him are Trevor Linden, Tony Tanti, Markus Naslund and Daniel Sedin.
If he stays healthy, Boeser should also crack the top 10 in games played for the Canucks. He is currently 13th with 629 appearances and is in line to pass Ryan Kesler at 655, Doug Lidster at 666 and Dennis Kearns at 677. Once he gets beyond Kearns, only the Sedins and Stan Smyl will have played more games for Vancouver without appearing for another NHL team.
Boeser could also climb the assists list. He has 256, which places him 15th and one behind Brendan Morrison. A 35-assist season would carry him past Morrison, Todd Bertuzzi, Andre Boudrias, JT Miller and Dennis Kearns.
He’s even close to another niche mark: overtime goals. Boeser has finished 31 games in OT, leaving him one behind Pavel Bure and two behind Elias Pettersson and Trevor Linden. Depending on how the season unfolds, he could move as high as fourth on that list, behind only Daniel Sedin, Markus Naslund and Henrik Sedin.
That’s the Boeser profile in a nutshell. He has been a dependable 20-goal, 50-point player in Vancouver, and another season in that range would keep nudging him up the club’s all-time rankings in just about every meaningful category.
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