Most Vancouver Canucks all-time records have the name “Sedin” beside them.
Henrik Sedin owns three of them: games played, assists, and points. How many points you ask? That would be 1000.
It seemed too much to ask that the greatest Canuck of all time would score a milestone at home, and against a former teammate. This is a franchise that has lost three Stanley Cup Finals. Vancouver just isn’t supposed to have nice things.
Tonight, though, the universe eased up it’s “no nice things to Vancouver” policy. Fans witnessed their captain join an exclusive club of NHL greats.