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He sits now as the Vancouver Canucks’ highest paid player — and the NHL club’s most baffling.

Loui Eriksson is the Canucks’ would-be star. He’s paid like one, having earned $16 million in two seasons with Vancouver.

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He just can’t seem to score like one. And that’s where things get confusing.

Because despite all the talk about his two-way play, and it’s fine, and this idea he’s still a “good third liner,” something important too often gets lost. Eriksson is a goal scorer.

At least, he was before he signed a massive $36 million contract to come to Vancouver.

In the season that got him paid, his last one in Boston, he put up 30 goals. Ten were on the power play, the same number Sidney Crosby scored that year. How poorly have things gone since?

The last time Eriksson scored a power-play goal was February of 2017. And in two seasons, he has 21 goals for the Canucks in total. No one saw this coming, especially not Eriksson.