Vancouver Canucks: Why Brock Boeser will dominate in 2019-20
Coming off a sophomore season where he battled some health issues, Brock Boeser, now 100% healthy, will dominate with the Vancouver Canucks next season.
Although he and the Vancouver Canucks have yet to come to an agreement on a contract yet, Brock Boeser will get signed, and he will dominate next season. Here’s why.
Have you ever gotten hurt at work, and then been unable to do your job to the best of your ability? You can still technically do your job, but you’re uncomfortable doing it because of the injury you sustained. Then once you’ve recovered and ready to go back to your job, you realize the rehab process made it more difficult to do your job than before.
That’s exactly what Boeser was going through last season. After suffering a freak injury right before the final month of what was still an extremely memorable rookie campaign, Boeser was fearful that he’d never be able to get back to playing how he was during that season.
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I don’t know if you remember, but this is the guy who, in his rookie season, was staring down goaltenders and beating them on a regular basis, no matter how much of the net they took away. Boeser’s freak injury not only damaged his lower back, affecting him physically, but it also affected him mentally.
Boeser said the following in an interview with the late Jason Botchford:
"“Coming off that back injury, it was scary playing again and getting back into games and taking hits. That was mentally hard. That was in my head at the start of the year. You have to get your confidence back and then I didn’t score all of preseason. Then I got injured and finally I was like ‘Holy [expletive], when am I going to feel like myself again? In those games at the beginning of the year, even when I went back and watched clips, it didn’t look like me. I wasn’t myself. It was hard. But I think I did a good job of finding a way to get through it.”"
Back to my example, now imagine, upon returning from your injury, your employer sends you out to do the exact same task that injured you in the first place. For Boeser, this was his reality last season, and it was something he had to overcome, along with a groin injury that affected him early on.
With such an up and down year like the one Boeser had, the sky is the limit for him, now 100% healthy. He has had an entire offseason to focus on his training and look for ways to improve his game. Last offseason, he was busy trying to strengthen his core and rehabilitate his back injury, whereas this offseason, Boeser can focus on whatever he feels will help him take that next step.
Now with no mental hindrance weighing on his mind as to whether or not he’s going to end up in a hospital room every time he gets hit, Boeser can finally get back to playing hockey and feeling like himself again. That could very well mean that we see the same dominant Boeser that we saw at the start of his young career. Now let’s get this guy signed.