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Bo Horvat scored two, Jacob Markstrom stood on his head with 33 saves, and Edmonton wunderkind Connor McDavid was held off the scoresheet in Vancouver’s 3-2 victory in their home and season opener Saturday night at Rogers Arena. Here’s what we learned …

THERE IS A NEW WORLD ORDER IN VANCOUVER

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It arrived before the first period was over.

Edmonton’s Adam Larsson was sitting out an interference penalty which was called and immediately followed by a TV timeout. What happened next was a potential earth-mover.

Bo Horvat glided off the bench, the centre for the group long considered the Canucks’ second power-play unit.

This is noteworthy for a couple of reasons. One, the lead dogs for the power play have been the Sedins for the better part of a decade.

Two, Horvat scored. It was a wonderful goal. The kind that if Connor McDavid had been responsible, people would have been talking about it for days.

It was speed. It was power. It was the type of goal players making $5.5 million a year score.