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But while the 36-year-old isn’t the scorer he was, he remains by NHL standards an excellent offensive player whose greatest fault is that he is aging like the rest of us, although some are disinclined to grant him this measure of mortality.

Worse than that, a kind of hostility spills towards the Sedins at times for the Canuck organization’s failure to adequately plan for their replacements — like it’s their fault that Connor McDavid and Auston Matthews don’t play here.

Maybe they are to blame a little because the Sedins drove the most successful period in Canuck history — a span of 12 seasons when Vancouver missed the playoffs only twice, won seven division titles, a pair of Presidents’ Trophies and should have won the 2011 Stanley Cup.

Since the Sedins made the NHL as 20-year-olds from Ornskoldsvik, Sweden, in 2000, just five players have amassed more points and only San Jose Shark Joe Thornton has set up more goals than Henrik, whose assist against the Devils was his 767th.

In the context of his place in Canuck history, consider this: it was nearly four years ago that Sedin passed Markus Naslund to become the leading scorer in franchise history.

“We’ve been in the same city and the same organization a long time; I think maybe that’s the proudest part of this,” Henrik said during a recent moment of reflection. “We’ve been able to play in a hockey market and stay in it a long time without getting caught up in all the ups and downs.

“I’ve felt fairly good (this season). My body feels good every night. I don’t feel tired. People think we’re slow, but I don’t think we’re any slower now than we were back in the day. You’ve got to remember, too, when we were putting up our best points, we had the best team in the NHL around us. That’s a big difference. But, again, to see how this team is growing and people are getting better, that’s as enjoyable as those years.”