"I don't know if it's a major priority right now, Jay, but the Canucks have positioned themselves in a good way to get this done at some point because they've locked up their core players. You know, Miller is staying around, Pettersson is sticking around, you've got Hronek and Hughes done, you have another year of
Thatcher Demko at $5 million. All of a sudden, the Vancouver Canucks have cleaned up their cap situation to the point where, you know going into this season, if they could have found another suitor for Brock Boeser, they would have done that. He was a player, prior to the last two years before this one, was around a point-per-game guy, but he was hurt a lot. Then he has two years where he's just over half-a-point per game and all of a sudden, that $6.65 million, you're not getting the value out of that. But now last year, 40 goals like you mentioned, Brock Boeser at $6.6 million, it makes a lot of sense and when you see some of the comparables of the contracts that are signed, he will probably still will live in that range, and that's okay for Vancouver because going into two seasons from now, they're not going to have to make any big decisions as far as how much they're paying the big money players. It's going to be working around the fringes of the roster. You know, the
Pius Suter's of the world, those types of guys." Corrado said.
He added, "So you're now in a good position to give Brock Boeser market value to stay on your team. Now you probably want to see what transpires here over the course of the year. Are you going to get the Brock Boeser you had last year, the guy who was really good in the playoffs or are you going to get the guy from the two previous seasons? That remains to be seen, but the Canucks have positioned themselves well to pay Brock Boeser fair market value."
