Sedin twins hang up the skates for good after final game tonight

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EDMONTON, AB. (NEWS 1130) – The Sedin twins have one more NHL game left and that’s tonight against the Edmonton Oilers. As the pair inch closer to retirement, some may be wondering if they’re worthy of induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

There wasn’t a dry eye in the house at Rogers Arena on Thursday for their last home game but does Vancouver’s affinity translate to call to the hall?

An unofficial pre-requisite is a 1,000 in the NHL, which they both have.

“Brian Campbell, a former NHL All-Star defenceman, even described a power-play opportunity, which is now defined as a Sedin play throughout the league. That’s something they define, much like Wayne Gretzky had his office (behind the net),” explains James Cybulski with our sister station Sportsnet 650.

He doesn’t doubt the two will be given the honour. “They are total hall-of-famers. When you look at what they did in this generation, today’s era, and not only that, two different eras of hockey. They were successful in the ‘dead puck’ era of the pre-2004 and 2005 lockout and really went to another level when the rules changed and [the NHL] became sort of a skating league — they really had an opportunity to show what they could do.”

If there’s a knock against the two, it is their lack of a Stanley Cup, but that hasn’t kept others from being enshrined into the Hall of Fame.


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Fairy tale Ending

On Monday in an open letter to fans, the twins announced they were retiring after this season. Suddenly, Canuck Nation was shattered at the idea of never seeing #22 and #33 hit the ice again in Vancouver.

On Thursday night, Vancouver hosted the Arizona Coyotes as the Canucks played their final home game of the regular season.

Daniel Sedin scored 33 seconds into the second period with an assist by Henrik. It was the 744th time the twins had been in on the same goal in their respective careers.

The Canucks clawed their way back from a deficit and Daniel scored the OT winner at 2:33 into the extra frame with a helper from brother Henrik. That was the 745th time the twins combined on one play.

The Sedin twins are ending their career after 18 years in the league. Henrik Sedin holds team records for most points, most games played and most assists. Daniel is second in all-time scoring, most goals, most game-winning goals and most power play goals.

Other Canucks highlights this season

With all the deserved attention on the twins over the last few days, it may be easy to forget that another Canucks season concludes tonight.

If there’s one thing that really go the fan base excited this season, it was Brock Boeser. He scored 29 goals, a team lead, in 62 appearances before getting hurt in a game against the New York Islanders at Rogers Arena. It’s a back injury that he’s expected to make a full recovery from.

It’s fitting that it happened against the Islanders, a team that boasts Coquitlam’s Matthew Barzal who is one of the favourites to win the Calder Trophy this year and the player Boeser had been battling it out with for the nod as the NHL’s top rookie.

Boeser also won the accuracy competition at the NHL’s All-Star weekend in Tampa Bay in January and, in case you forgot, he was also named the MVP of the All-Star game.

He will part of a core that could generate some excitement next season with the additions of Adam Gaudette and eventually highly-touted prospect Elias Pettersson.

While tickets seemed easy to get to watch the Canucks at Rogers Arena, ESPN’s ranking of average crowd size in the NHL did have Vancouver at 16th in the league, which is just a shade over 18,000 a game.

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