Before and after: How the Sedin twins sparked their Hall-of-Fame ascension - Sportsnet.ca

So much has been written about the Swedish twins, who combined for 2,111 points over 17 seasons in Vancouver, that their development story is well known. It should be a blueprint for current Canucks.

“In a sense, the Canucks were close to losing them because they weren’t being utilized,” Barry told Sportsnet on Thursday. “And if they decided that this wasn’t going to work, you knew they were not going to change their minds. “We wanted to show that we wanted to take the next step here,” Daniel said. “For Marc, who had been with us so long, I think he needed to hear that.”

“I didn’t realize that there was a problem until that point,” Crawford said. “Dave kind of came to me — and I give Dave a lot of credit — and said: ‘We have to straighten this out. You have to straighten this out.’ I didn’t understand why they were upset. Daniel and Henrik were always such polite, great guys. And even the times that I had given them crap, they were respectful. They shouldn’t have been as respectful as they were. But you’re absolutely right, that was a turning point for them.

When the Canucks missed the playoffs, Nonis fired Crawford as coach and promoted Alain Vigneault to replace him. That summer, Nonis also traded Bertuzzi to the Florida Panthers for goalie Roberto Luongo, who, incredibly, is going into the Hall of Fame with the Sedins. “We got stronger, No. 1. And we became much better skaters. As soon as we felt that we could compete physically with all the guys and skate with all the guys, I think we were able to get back to playing our game. I think we got away from that early where, for us, it was more dump and chase and just trying not to get scored on.”

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