Canucks re-signing forward Brock Boeser to seven year deal at $7.25 million annually

Boeser, 28, scored 25 goals this past season and added 25 assists through 75 games played this past season. The year before that, Boeser enjoyed a career year, scoring 40 goals and adding 33 assists through 81 games.

The Canucks’ option to sign Boeser to an eight-year deal expired at midnight eastern last night, hence why this one comes in at seven years. The deal will see Boeser earn $50.75 million, and his agent Ben Hankinson tweeted about the deal moments after it was announced:

With the salary cap going up, Boeser’s new deal will quickly take up an even lower percentage of the Canucks’ salary cap than his old deal did. Here’s some quick cap math:

This past season at a $6.65 million cap hit (with an upper limit of $88 million), Boeser took up 7.5% on the Canucks’ books. 

In 2025-26 at his new $7.25 million cap hit, Boeser will take up 7.6%. In 2026-27, that number goes down to 7%. In 2027-28 when the cap rises to $113.5 million, that number drops all the way down to 6.4%, with four more years left on the deal. Thus, this isn’t much of a “raise” for Boeser, as he gets the term he was looking for to remain with the team he never really wanted to leave.

The Canucks originally drafted Boeser 23rd overall in the 2015 NHL Draft. Boeser has registered 204 goals and 230 assists through 554 regular season games played. Boeser was a point per game player during the Canucks 2023-24 playoff run, tallying seven goals and five assists through 12 games.

This is the Canucks’ third piece of business of the day, as they signed goaltender Thatcher Demko and Conor Garland to contract extensions to kick off the day early Tuesday morning. After signing Boeser, the Canucks are tight on cap space, so it will be interesting to see what else they try to accomplish today.

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