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MOST IMPORTANT PLAYER

He seems to be the only link to the past.

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Jannik Hansen, the one winger who can make the Sedins, the Sedins again.

Maybe Eriksson can do it too. But, these days, Vrbata has a better chance of playing with the twins.

Watching Hansen breathe life into the Canucks top line, in the first game he’s been able to significantly impact after missing five weeks, I did have this odd thought. What if you traded all three, the Sedins and Hansen, to a Stanley Cup contender?

What would that be worth?

That is a debate for another day.

Because the Canucks are not trading anyone these days, landlocked in roster limbo unless they play themselves so far out of the playoff race they don’t have a choice but to make a move.

No moves to sell, and no moves to buy. It’s a weird world this team lives in.

They aren’t firing their coach today either. They desire the coaching story to drift well into the new year.

More games like tonight, and it won’t be a problem.