‘I still think I can take a huge step,’ says goal-scoring winger
To understand the standard Brock Boeser is setting for himself for the summer of 2019, one has to understand what he went through in the summer of 2018.
It all added up to a terrible start to the season for him and probably led to a groin injury that knocked him out for a long stretch early in the year. The big thing he wanted to work on last year, before he crashed heavily into the open door at the Canucks’ bench in March 2018, was his skating.“Being able to get a full summer working on my skating and those things I need to work on — quickness and other things — I think I can get that next step, skating-wise,” he said.
“This year it was mentally hard. Starting from way back in training camp. Getting injured again. I feel like my potential is way higher. I can produce way more for this team. I can be that 200-foot player. Create more scoring chances,” he said, proudly. Seeing his poor effort afterwards burned him. And it served as a moment in the season where he said he dedicated himself to being better in all aspects. He fully recognized that it would have been better to learn that lesson earlier, but here we are, and the lesson has been learned, he insisted.
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