What is it about Reid Boucher that people won’t give the kid a real chance?
Is it the perception that he is slow? (He’s faster than several current Canucks.) Is it the claim that he was ‘out of shape’ when he arrived in Vancouver? (This claim was made about a few players that former coach Willie Desjardins didn’t want to play, including current Canuck Jake Virtanen and the KHL’s best defender Nikita Tryamkin.) Is it that he has been on the waiver wire three times? (There are many paths to NHL success, just ask former Canuck Alex Burrows.