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And they are there, at the bottom of the league in goals-per-game, not by a little.

Only two teams have scored fewer ES goals this season. This is with the Sedins having their bounce-back seasons.

What would it look like without them?

The Canucks need future offence. They need defencemen. They need to be relevant in 2-3 years.

They need to get the best possible deal in any Gudbranson trade and they need to trade Vanek to help the future.

So should they turn the tanker around if the Sedins are done?

Chase a veteran forward?

Remember, the Canucks tried to trade Guddy for Demers. This is not the usual type of deal you see at the deadline. And, trading for a well-salaried veteran forward on the surface doesn’t make a lot of sense for this stage of a rebuild.

But let’s say you agree with all of this. You want to give the Canucks the benefit of the doubt.

You see what’s going to happen when you pull the Sedins’ 100 points out of this lineup. You think it’s reasonable they re-sign Vanek and trade Guddy for ….. uhm, a player who could could help more now than later.

OK, but why say it out loud?

God bless the Canucks when they are transparent, and they tend to be more often than not with Jim.

It’s refreshing and many times effective in connecting with fans.

But in this particular case it means this story isn’t going away. People will want to know what the Sedins say because their decision is threaded with the Canucks’ trade deadline.

The Sedins are going to be asked about it until there is some sort of resolution.

So is management.

Should be a fun couple of weeks for the twins.

Or month.

The kicker to all of this? Most in Vancouver believed the Sedins were coming back anyway.

BEST TWIST

The twist ending, or twist beginning, is that this was all started by J.P. via some fine work from Dhaliworld.

And boom went the dynamite.