Canucks‘ Woes Only Getting Worse As Brian Boeser Leaves Game With Painful Injury

The Canucks are not having a bully clip this season. Vancouver is dealing pinch a rash of injuries and entered their crippled against nan Blues connected Thursday short-handed and sitting successful nan bottommost 3rd of nan NHL pinch conscionable 10 points connected nan year.

It didn't return agelong for things to get worse.

Less than a infinitesimal into nan game, Brock Boeser was deed by a teammate's changeable and had to beryllium helped disconnected nan ice. Announcers initially said he was deed successful nan "midsection" and upon replay wished that it was "midsection-ish," which is codification for, well, you know.

Hopefully, Boeser didn't suffer immoderate existent trauma present because nan Canucks request their second-leading extremity scorer. The squad came into Thursday's crippled pinch nan 5th lowest scoring discourtesy successful nan league. Last twelvemonth he was 2nd connected nan squad pinch 25 goals. The play earlier he led nan squad pinch 40 goals arsenic they made nan playoffs. It was nan only clip nan Canucks had been to nan playoffs successful nan past 5 years.

At slightest 1 section publication called this an "injury crisis" and its easy to spot why. Here's really nan Canucks' existent business was described successful The Province:

This existent situation is singular not conscionable because of nan measurement of injuries but because astir of them are of nan multi-week variety, mostly injuries down to bad luck much than anything. It’s an wounded situation that could good and genuinely derail this season, a play that was already connected a knife’s separator successful position of agelong word utility.

Victor Mancini, Derek Forbort, Teddy Blueger, Jonathan Lekkerimaki, Filip Chytil, Nils Höglander and Guillaume Brisebois are each connected injured reserve.

Quinn Hughes and Conor Garland were some injured earlier this week and did not subordinate nan squad erstwhile they near connected their roadworthy travel connected Wednesday.

There's nary mobility Boeser was wounded tonight. The only mobility is really agelong will he beryllium out?

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