Brock Boeser could make Vancouver Canucks history in the worst possible way
Somebody call Lemony Snicket, because he might need to add a Vancouver Canucks version of A Series of Unfortunate Events.
This will likely go down as the worst Canucks season since the early 1970s, barring a late-season win streak. Vancouver has already locked up last place for the first time since 1971-92. They’ve set records for their inability to win at home, and the gap between them and the next-worst team is beyond astonishing.
One of their highest-paid players is also on pace to set an unfortunate franchise mark.
As The Masters got underway on Thursday, Brock Boeser was chirped for having the worst plus/minus rating in the entire NHL. His -43 is last in the league, narrowly ahead of defenceman Artyom Levshunov of the Chicago Blackhawks (-41).
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Only six players in the entire NHL are below -30, including Boeser, Levshunov, Jake DeBrusk and Zeev Buium.
The Canucks horrid goal differential with Boeser on the ice this season is agonizingly close to being the worst plus/minus total in franchise history.
Only defenceman Jack McIlhargey had a worse plus/minus for the Canucks, finishing with a -45 back in 1977-78.
Boeser has four games to go to avoid that dubious mark.
If things go south for Boeser over the next four games, he could end up with the worst plus/minus that the NHL has seen in over 30 years.
Since 1995-96, Keith Yandle has had the dubious honour of having the worst plus/minus total in the NHL.
During his final NHL season back in 2021-22, Yandle finished with a -47 while playing for the Philadelphia Flyers. You’d have to go back to the early 1990s to find lower totals than that, with a handful of players on the expansion-era Ottawa Senators and San Jose Sharks having plus/minus totals that exceeded -50.
Thankfully, Boeser is nowhere near the worst plus/minus in NHL history. That belongs to Bill Mikkelson, who had an astounding -82 back in 1974-75 while playing for the expansion Washington Capitals.
Even though Boeser has boosted his offensive output of late, his plus/minus has continued to dip. He leads the Canucks with nine goals and 19 points since March 1. Over that same stretch, Boeser also has a -14 rating. That’s third-worst on the Canucks behind DeBrusk (-16) and Filip Hronek (-18).
The 29-year-old Boeser has six years remaining on his contract, paying him $7.25 million per season.
At this rate, he might give Dennis Kearns a run for the worst career plus/minus in team history. Kearns had a -155 rating during his 10-year career with the Canucks.