Nothing that I know of. But being a big hockey fan and Canucks fan ( I have been cheering for the Canucks since I was a 5 year old brat living 5 blocks away from the Pacific Coliseum), I can't help but being really excited that Henrik Sedin won the MVP award this year. This marks the first time a Canucks player has won a major award in the NHL. We were tantalizingly close with Pavel Bure and Markus Naslund, but aside from those spurts, it seemed that we were always left to cheer for mediocrity. Now with a Canuck winning a major award, that feeling seems to be dissipating. It feels like we do have a team worth getting behind, and that they do have a chance to win the Stanley Cup (especially since Chicago has just traded Byfuglian to the Eastern Conference).
It is even more important that Henrik won the Hart (and the Art Ross) this year since Pavel Bure was snubbed from induction to the Hockey Hall of Fame in favour of Dino Ciccarelli, meaning that there is still no player that played a significant portion of their career in Vancouver in the Hall. Henrik Sedin winning MVP this year will change that. As long as he keeps up his normal pace, meaning at least a point a game for the rest of his career, he is almost guaranteed to be in the Hall. There is no player in history that I know of that has won the MVP award and not been inducted into the Hall of Fame once they became eligible. And if Henrik gets into the Hall, it would be very hard to keep Daniel out. Perhaps, when the time comes, they should be inducted as one player, Henrik and Daniel. It would only be fitting.
Rob McDonald
Yahoo Sports is where I tend to get most of my hockey information not because I think it's better than anywhere else, but because I really like their hockey pool structure. I usually am in two or three different yahoo pools a year.
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