Brock Boeser has been on a journey this season. One that started poorly.
The Vancouver Canucks top-line winger kicked off his contract year by scoring just nine points in 21 games, looking a long way off from the near point-per-game player he was eight months earlier.
It was barely mid-November, Vancouver was in a tailspin and Boeser's poor totals resulted in talk of him possibly being dealt. None of it was sitting well.
"I personally don't think I'm going to get traded," Boeser said at the time. "I think [the rumors] are just people looking for an answer out in the social media world with the team struggling.