Vancouver Canucks Head Coach Adam Foote Trusting Brock Boeser with Major New Role This Season

The Vancouver Canucks continue their preparations for the start of the 2025-26 season on Friday with the second day of training camp and we're likely going to see some different line combinations and special teams units being tested out by Adam Foote and his staff.

While the club may have missed out on the playoffs last season, there was one area that they excelled at and that was on the penalty kill, as they finished with an 82.6% success rate, which was good enough for third in the entire league and first in the Western Conference.

After the Canucks lost Pius Suter in the first couple days of free agency, with the Swiss forward signing a two-year deal with the St. Louis Blues, it left a pretty big void on the team's penalty killing unit, but it looks like Head Coach Adam Foote may have found his replacement.

When meeting with reporters after the first day of training camp, Vancouver Canucks Head Coach said that he believes forward Brock Boeser could be a factor on the penalty kill for the club this season.

If that does come to fruition, it'll be a new challenge for the 28-year-old Boeser, who signed a seven-year deal to remain in Vancouver back on July 1st.

Along with Boeser, the Vancouver Canucks' penalty kill will likely also feature guys such as Teddy Blueger, Kiefer Sherwood, Drew O'Connor, Marcus Pettersson and Filip Hronek, with a few other players also being options for Adam Foote as well.

While it may be hard to replicate the success they had on the penalty kill last season, especially with the departure of Pius Suter, the Vancouver Canucks should have no issues at least being in the top-half, if not top-ten of all teams in the National Hockey League.

As Boeser embarks on the first year of his new contract, he's hoping to produce some more offense for his club, after seeing a 15 goal & 23 point drop-off between the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons.