With all their cap space. With good moves they could be a good team pretty fast.
Plus you know they want to make a splash, just to help with ticket sales.
The Sedins were a treat to watch and are great people who I hope truly enjoy retirement.
The Canucks are gonna be fun to watch next year for all the wrong reasons. Unless they bring back Vanek, I'm really not sure who's gonna bring any sort of scoring past their 1-2 punch of Boeser and Horvat. Sam freaking Gagner?
Whomever they add via free agency with the 15M space they have....
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Amazing players that I've always hated 97% of that is because they play for the Canucks. But their point totals will never come close to the Gretzky brothers.
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VANCOUVER – Paying tribute to forwards Henrik and#Daniel Sedin#on their final NHL season, Vancouver Canucks fans have destroyed a small part of the downtown area.
Tributes to the legendary players came in forms of flying bottles, flaming cars, and brazen looting.
“The 18 years the Sedins were with the team had its ups and downs,” said one Canucks fan before hurling a brick into London Drugs. “They were really a part of this city and the only way we know how to take a loss as deep as this is to destroy a portion of it.”
I have always had a disdain for the Canucks, so the Sedins were always guilty by association.
My wife is a casual hockey fan, but she has watched (tolerated) a lot over the years. During the playoff series in 2004 and 2014 against Vancouver, I caught my wife referring to the twins as the "Sedin Sisters" since she heard me say it so often and she didn't even realize what she said.
and then I always respected them a ton. That is a lot of money to donate, and any NHL player that donates that kind of dough is an amazing person- especially when they're not even from the country. Classy guys.
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Not a fan of the pair, and was always angry with Bob Murray, then of the Blackhawks, for making the deal that put the Canucks in position to draft both 2nd and 3rd in 1999, as the Canucks were able to trade the 'Hawks 4th overall pick plus a later pick for Tampa's 3rd overall pick. In the event, the 'Hawks only got a decent, but, not great Brian McCabe, plus a pick that turned into the legendary Pavel Voboriev, whoop-de-doo.
In any rate, having a mini-rivalry with the Canucks and the Sedin's contemptible cohorts (like Burrows, Bieksa, and Kessler), gave us Blackhawk fans a truly hate-able team to bounce from the playoffs for a run.
Never really hated the pillow soft pair, but, did hate that they insisted on being a matched set, or would have stayed at Modo, and, of course, hated the diving dirtbags that they played with.
I am not quite convinced that they are slam dunk HOF inductees, and, the fact that they WERE a package, I believe, will be a negative in the minds of some voters, as will the fact that they never had the ultimate prize. Probably they will need a couple of ballots to make it.
However, I wish them well in retirement (unlike some of their former teammates, for which I will never have pleasant wishes for).
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and then I always respected them a ton. That is a lot of money to donate, and any NHL player that donates that kind of dough is an amazing person- especially when they're not even from the country. Classy guys.
Classy indeed. Also for the first all stars game where they inducted the prize money for winning the all stars game. Daniel sedin donated the entirety of his earnings to the training and behind the scenes staff of the canucks. How awesome is that.
