“If Jake scores seven goals or 14 goals, it doesn’t matter. But if when he’s 22 or 23 he can be an everyday NHL player where you know he’s going to show up for every game and play well, that’s going to help him tremendously.”
— Canuck captain Henrik Sedin, last week
The Vancouver Canucks were bound to devolve into infighting. All those losses and blown leads and the hopeless deficit in the playoff race always threatened to tear the team apart. And now it is happening.
“I don’t know if I agree with Henrik,” Jannik Hansen said this week.