What would the Vancouver Canucks be without their Swedish twins Henrik and Daniel Sedin? The duo has been around since 1999, when three trades ahead of the first selection of the 1999 NHL Entry Draft secured Vancouver the second and third overall picks that would then be used on Henrik and Daniel.
Almost 16 years later, the Sedins have over 1,000 games played for the Canucks and are the club’s top-two scorers, both nearing the 1,000-point mark. However, the Sedin era will inevitably come to an end one day. A team’s best player’s retirement is never easy to compensate and it only gets harder when the team’s two best players retire at the same time — which is likely to happen in Vancouver.