Brutal Break As It Looks Like One Of The Best Rookies In The NHL, Brock Boeser's, Season Is Over After A Collision Into The Bench Door
Every once in a while you forget that professional ice hockey is a bunch of fully grown men wearing body armor while on a sheet of ice wearing steel blades on their feet that allow them to move around 25 mph out there and they’re constantly trying to run each other over. It’s fast as heck. It’s violent as frick. It’s always pretty incredible that nobody dies when you actually think about it. But unfortunately as we saw last night in Vancouver, sometimes the game is just a little too fast and a little too violent, and freak accidents happen.
You can’t fault Boeser for trying to make a play on the body. You can’t fault Clutterbuck for not allowing a rookie to take him out and in turn bodying the shit out of him. You can’t fault Virtanen for getting off the ice and having the bench door open. It’s just a freak injury that unfortunately led to a brutal injury that clearly could have been much worse.
Pretty scary when they have to clarify that an injury is “not career-threatening” especially for a 21-year-old rookie. Good news is it sounds like he’ll be good to go for next season without any issues. More or less just a maintenance thing to shut him down since it’s not like Vancouver is going to be doing anything after the regular season.
It just sucks because Boeser has been an absolute animal this season. I know Mat Barzal is the leader for the Calder this year but if there’s one person who was actually making it a competition, it was Boeser. 29 goals, 55 points in 62 games. Not only does he have the stats of a beauty, but he also has one of the crispiest heads of lettuce in the game.
Holy handsome. It’s a crime against humanity that he has to cover that thing up with a helmet during games. But yeah. Brock Boeser had an unreal rookie campaign. I’ve got a little soft spot in my heart for the former CBS line at North Dakota of Caggiula, Boeser and Schmaltz. That crew was so damn fun to watch during their run to the Natty championship. So to see the kid lighting it up at this level only to have his season end on some freak accident like this obviously sucks. But what sucks even more is now with Boeser out of the lineup, Vancouver can really start tanking in these final 16 games. The Canucks have already lucked out with grabbing some Swedes in the draft before. Could you imagine if they land the #1 overall pick and add Rasmus Dahlin to the lineup with Boeser? They already have Elias Pettersson waiting in the pipeline. They also have a top Finnish prospect in Olli Juolevi waiting to get called up as well. Between Boeser, Pettersson, Juolevi and possibly Dahlin, those 4 alone might put up at least 7 or 8 goals a night.