For weeks, it looked like Brock Boeser was done with the Vancouver Canucks. By late June, multiple reports pegged him as a “longshot” to re-sign. The Canucks failed to extend Boeser's contract ...

Just after free agency opened at noon ET on Tuesday, Boeser signed a seven-year, $50.75 million contract ($7.25 million annual cap hit) to retain his title as the longest-tenured Canuck.

Nick Kypreos revealed that Brock Boeser passed on Toronto’s higher offer to stay in Vancouver on a seven-year deal signed on July 1.

They had to go to Brock and say, ‘Okay, we’ll fix the center position, maybe early next year in a trade.’” Boeser, 28, willingly accepted the Canucks offer and signed a sizable seven-year ...