- Travis Yost says the Canucks should trade Brock Boeser to speed up the rebuild
- Boeser is 29 and signed for six more years at $7.25 million per season
- Read below for his contract details and why a deal is complicated
Brock Boeser is the one Vancouver Canucks veteran who could actually speed up the rebuild, and TSN’s Travis Yost thinks the team should find out what he is worth.
Yost laid out the case in a column published Tuesday, arguing that Vancouver’s rebuild clock and Boeser’s age no longer line up.
“Boeser is 29, coveted around the league, and playing on a team that’s going to get worse before it gets better. Given the fact we have likely seen his best years already, does the timeline of keeping Boeser around make sense, or is he the coveted trade asset you cash in on to accelerate the quality of this rebuild?”
The contract is what makes it messy. Boeser signed a seven-year deal worth $7.25 million a season on the opening day of free agency in July 2025, announced by a general manager who no longer works there:
PuckPedia broke down the structure the same afternoon. Boeser holds a full no-movement clause through year four of the deal, then a 15-team no-trade list for the final three seasons.
He is in year two. Nothing happens unless he says yes:
Production is the other half of the argument. Boeser put up 22 goals and 26 assists in 75 games last season, down from 50 points the year before and a long way from the 40-goal, 73-point season he had in 2023-24.
Take a look at every goal he scored last year:
Underlying numbers push the same direction. Even-strength scoring has slowed and his power-play rate sat near a career low, even with Quinn Hughes, Filip Hronek, Elias Pettersson and J.T. Miller as his most frequent linemates.
That help is mostly gone now. Hughes is in Minnesota, Pettersson and his $11.6 million cap hit have been in the rumor mill all summer, and Jake DeBrusk reads like a deadline chip. The Canucks have been trying to cut payroll since July.
May brought the teardown. Patrik Allvin and head coach Adam Foote were both let go, with Ryan Johnson taking over as GM and Manny Malhotra getting his first NHL head coaching job.
Vancouver opens the season with the longest Stanley Cup odds in the league. Brian La Rose of Pro Hockey Rumors wrote that a consistent 20-goal scorer at that number still carries solid value, but called a deal before camp highly unlikely.
So Boeser skates into camp in Vancouver, and the question comes back in December if the Canucks open the way their odds say they will.
