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Don’t call him the power-play saviour.

Heck, a year ago, there was doubt whether you could still call Sam Gagner an NHLer.

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Back then, he waited until August before the Columbus Blue Jackets kept him in the league with a one-year, $650,000 contract.

My, how things have changed.

The Vancouver Canucks scooped Gagner on the first day of free agency and the $9.45 million offer he accepted wasn’t the only three-year deal he had on the table.

“Last year was a tough summer,” Gagner said. “There was a lot of waiting around.”

Putting up a 50-point season, including 18 on the power play, tends to tweak the dynamic, more than a little.

Much of that is due to Columbus’s game-changing deployment. Gagner was on a fourth line, albeit a really good one, and also on the team’s No. 1 power-play unit.

It was as unusual as it was effective.

Gagner excelled, asked to roam between the circles on the power play, where he put up more man-advantage points than Henrik Sedin, who led the Canucks’ feeble unit with 15.