Canuck general manager Jim Benning said the Sedins will be involved in all areas of hockey operations, including player evaluation, development and communication from the amateur to NHL level.
They are going to have a big voice in what we do here going forward. They failed to advance to the playoffs five of the six previous years. Henrik Sedin leads the Canuck franchise in games played 1, , assists and points 1, Daniel Sedin is the franchise-leader in goals , power play goals , game-winning goals 86 and shots on goal 3, Henrik Sedin admitted the brothers will face a learning curve when it comes to the business side of the game, making trades and preparing for the draft.
Daniel Sedin said turning the Canucks into Stanley Cup contenders could take time. He remembers how the core of the team evolved on and off the ice. Ornskoldsvik is to hockey what San Pedro de Macoris is to baseball. Your hockey career isn't your own but a social responsibility, something you owe the community. The Sedins will always have that in their luggage. Henrik and Daniel are sitting in a coffee shop a block from their school in Ornskoldsvik, where in late November the sky turns from black to a soft gray at 9 a.
By day the Sedins study at Nolaskolan Gymnasium, equivalent to an American high school, where teachers still call Daniel "Henrik" and Henrik "Daniel" or sometimes tvilling--twin. The Sedins accept misidentification as a matter of course, although every once in a while it does get their zygotes. They have just come from tackling integers in calculus class, and though soon the only integers they will ever have to worry about will be the ones in their NHL contracts, they treat school with a proper, endearing earnestness.
Each orders a fruit soda and a pastry. Though Henrik does most of the talking, it's not because his command of English is necessarily better than his brother's; both the boys speak it relatively well. It's because Daniel defers to his older sibling Henrik was born six minutes earlier , often glancing at him before answering questions.
Too late. Daniel and Henrik got their visas to Foppaland stamped last year after they made the MoDo senior team at 17, the same age as the precocious Forsberg had.
Daniel was distinctly the better Sedin last season, a scorer who could play either wing and had more speed than his brother. Henrik, a center and, like his brother, a lefthanded shot, didn't play as much.
Now that Henrik is taking regular shifts this season with Daniel on the top line on Sweden's top team, Daniel's edge over his brother is about a quarter of an inch--if the space between MoDo coach Per Backman's thumb and forefinger can be accurately gauged. Henrik, who has seven goals and 13 assists in 28 games through Sunday, plays defense more responsibly. Daniel, with 10 goals and 13 assists, has a harder shot and a little more flair. They both have a knack for coming out of a scrum along the boards with the puck, and while they're physically imposing--Henrik is 6'2", pounds--unlike Forsberg, they're not especially physical.
They are, however, conspicuously smart. After Daniel scored a goal and Henrik had an assist last month in a victory against Stockholm's Djurgardens IF at Kempehallen, a low-slung barn outside Ornskoldsvik that seats 2, and stands 4, more, linemate Anders Soderberg said, "I played with Foppa during the [ NHL] lockout.
The only difference is there was one of him and two of them. There are identical twins who played on the same page, like Rich and Ron Sutter, the youngest of the six Sutter brothers who carved out decent careers as hockey plumbers, and those who are simply on the same page of the Baseball Encyclopedia, like the slugging Jose Canseco and his footnote brother, Ozzie.
But Daniel and Henrik can go a little further than even the indistinguishable Van Arsdales did and set the standard for athletic doubles, even if they never quite become Forsberg2. Growing up and playing hockey together in their native Sweden, it would take a fortunate series of events for Daniel and Henrik Sedin to end up playing on the same NHL team and the same line. As top-rated players in the NHL Entry Draft, the Sedins wanted to play together, but were expecting to be drafted by different teams; instead, with Vancouver already holding the third overall pick in the draft, Canucks general manager Brian Burke made a series of trades to also land the second overall pick:.
With that, Vancouver was able to draft Daniel second overall and Henrik third, though the twins played one more season with MoDo in Sweden before joining the Canucks for the season. Post-lockout, the Sedins would return to the NHL and begin hitting their strides together, of course. From playing a supporting role in the early part of their careers, the twins would gradually emerge as the leaders of the Canucks and achieve their greatest successes individually and as a team.
In their first season back in , both would hit the point mark for the first time in their career: 71 points 22 goals and 49 assists for Daniel and 75 points 18 goals and 57 assists for Henrik. From there, the brothers would embark on a period of consistent excellence, with both recording three further point seasons from to , including identical point seasons in though on 31 goals and 51 assists for Daniel vs. The season would be the start of a magical two-year stretch for the Sedin brothers.
The next year, the tables were reversed, with Daniel establishing career highs with 41 goals and 63 assists for points, and winning both the Ross Trophy and the Pearson Award now known as the Lindsay Award for most outstanding player in the regular season, while finishing second in the Hart voting.
Henrik had another strong season as well, with 19 goals and 75 assists for 94 points. Moreover, at the start of the season, Henrik would become the 13th captain of the Vancouver Canucks and serve in that capacity until his retirement, with Daniel being an alternate captain.
The Sedins followed up in with another strong campaign 30 goals and 37 assists for 67 points for Daniel and 14 goals and 67 assists for 81 points for Henrik , and would continue to be valuable contributors for Vancouver, but their prime was behind them. They both had great seasons again in , with 76 points for Daniel 20 goals and 56 assists and 73 points for Henrik 18 goals and 55 assists , but over their last couple of seasons, both would score in the 45 to point range while serving as elder statesmen for the Canucks.
In comparing the Sedin twins side-by-side, their career numbers are almost identical. Overall, Daniel had seven point seasons vs.
In addition to the NHL, the twins were also frequent participants for their native Sweden in international competitions and achieved great success for their country. As you would expect, even when you isolate their careers to the decades of dominance, the numbers for Daniel and Henrik are basically a draw — separated by only 23 games played and 30 total points, Daniel again has the edge in goals vs. On a per-game basis, each is essentially a point-per-game producer again, an identical 0.
Whether or not the twins make the Hockey Hall of Fame remains to be seen, but they will nevertheless be two of the greatest players in Vancouver Canucks history.
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