VANCOUVER — The last-but-not-least goal the Vancouver Canucks scored in their season-opener was vintage Brock Boeser.

The longest-tenured Canuck loaded up on a wrist shot from the right-wing circle and unleashed a 40-foot rocket that Calgary Flames goalie Dustin Wolf saw all the way but could not stop before it buried itself in the top corner.

The goal capped Thursday’s 5-1 victory and looked like a lot of the ones Boeser scored from distance two seasons ago when he set his National Hockey League career-high with 40.

It also came in the first game of the seven-year, $50.75-million contract that Boeser signed with the Canucks on July 1 when the 28-year-old Minnesotan made a stunning U-turn at the precipice of free agency.

And it occurred near the end of a game in which Boeser debuted as

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