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What’s truly remarkable about the 2011 team is how little playoff success any member of that group has experienced in the years that have now passed. No one from that team has played 50 playoff games since getting to Game 7 against the Bruins.

Ryan Kesler leads the way with 49 post-season appearances with the Canucks and Anaheim, followed closely by Tanner Glass with 43 spread between Pittsburgh and the Rangers. For perspective, 100 different players around the league and nine separate teams have played 50 or more playoff games in that span, led by Carl Hagelin with 111 and the New York Rangers with 93.

Kevin Bieksa (29), Alex Burrows (27, with 15 of those coming with Ottawa this spring), Jannik Hansen (21) and Max Lapierre (20) are the only other members of that 2011 squad that have suited up for twenty or more playoff games since 2011.

Players get close to the pinnacle of their sport, and surely believe they’ll have another shot somewhere along the line. Henrik Sedin is living proof, however, that it simply isn’t the case. The Canucks captain celebrated 15 playoff victories in the spring of 2011. He has appeared in just 15 playoff games since and brother Daniel, who missed the first three games of the Canucks 2012 playoff series with Los Angeles with a concussion, has played in just 12 post-season games since the run to the final.

The others in the line-up for Game 7 of the 2011 final all barely saw the playoffs again: Alex Edler has 15 post-season appearances with a chance to log more as his career continues. But Chris Higgins and Raffi Torres have seemingly played their final NHL games and added just 15 playoff games to their resumes. Chris Tanev and Roberto Luongo have suited up 11 times, Sami Salo dressed for seven more playoff games, Manny Malhotra got into an additional five post-season contests which is where Cory Schneider stands all these years later. And Andrew Alberts dressed for four more games after appearing in the 2011 series against Boston.