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It has been two weeks since Canucks rookie Brock Boeser scored a hat trick and his Vancouver teammates are still talking about it.

“You see his celebration? I think I was more excited for him than he was,” Bo Horvat said.

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“He put his arms out and that was it. If I got a hat trick against the Penguins and it was the 3-2 goal in the middle of the third, I would have been bouncing and jumping off the glass a couple of times.”

Well, have you ever seen Boeser excited?

“Honestly, I don’t think so,” Horvat said. “Even when he scored his first goal he just kind of shrugged his shoulder, like he was saying ‘whatever.'”

Do not, however, mistake Boeser’s composed, steady and chill disposition for lack of passion.

You don’t walk onto your first NHL team and lead it in points if there’s not a fire inside of you the size of the wooden effigy that gets torched at the end of every Burning Man.

Boeser cares, and cares deeply.

He sure did in the off-season when new head coach Travis Green had several difficult conversations with him. The message was both hard and simple. Essentially, Boeser was told he wasn’t yet good enough for the NHL.