Carol Schram: Sedins step up for the community and Canucks' CHL prospects season ends Daniel and Henrik Sedin step up again to support health-care professionals and help feed underprivileged kids, and a look at the seasons of the Canucks' four drafted CHL prospects now that the Canadian junior hockey season has officially ended.

No Memorial Cup.....sad for the Rockets but some things are greater than sports.

New thread so I’ll re-post this...they’re listed in order of games played.


I’ve been looking through the Canucks all-time stats to try and figure out who our best ever defenceman is, stipulation is you must have played 400+ games with the franchise, so a good healthy contribution and sample size. I just can’t bring myself to say Alex Edler is that guy. It’s not a great list and a major downfall for the Canucks.

I’d have to go with 1) Jovo 2) Lumme 3) Öhlund 4) Edler 5) Lidster

GP - G - A - Pts - PIMS - (+/-) - PPG - P/GM

1 SE Alexander Edler 1986 D 873 99 302 401 607 -28 46 0.459
2 CA Harold Snepsts 1954 D 781 35 160 195 1446 -39 5 0.250
3 SE Mattias Öhlund 1976 D 770 93 232 325 756 9 0.422
4 CA Dennis Kearns 1945 D 677 31 290 321 386 -155 11 0.474
5 CA Doug Lidster 1960 D 666 65 242 307 526 -87 22 0.461
6 CA Garth Butcher 1963 D 610 33 107 140 1668 -118 3 0.230
7 CA Kevin Bieksa 1981 D 597 56 185 241 879 22 0.404
8 FI Jyrki Lumme 1966 D 579 83 238 321 379 21 28 0.554
9 FI Sami Salo 1974 D 566 74 162 236 202 78 48 0.417
10 CA Christopher Tanev 1989 D 514 22 96 118 121 43 0.230
11 CA Dana Murzyn 1966 D 452 23 65 88 900 78 0 0.195
12 CA Ed Jovanovski 1976 D 434 57 177 234 536 -3 22 0.539
13 CA Rick Lanz 1961 D 417 56 171 227 331 -78 37 0 0.544
14 CA Dave Babych 1961 D 409 23 131 154 290 -27 13 0.377

No Memorial Cup.....sad for the Rockets but some things are greater than sports.
- Pacificgem

Last thread you were asking about the facial expressions of sign language...

In American Sign Language, certain mouth and eye movements serve as adjectival or adverbial modifiers.

It’s an essential part of the language I guess. The guy doing our provincial announcements is amazing. I can’t stop watching him.

New thread so I’ll re-post this...they’re listed in order of games played.


I’ve been looking through the Canucks all-time stats to try and figure out who our best ever defenceman is, stipulation is you must have played 400+ games with the franchise, so a good healthy contribution and sample size. I just can’t bring myself to say Alex Edler is that guy. It’s not a great list and a major downfall for the Canucks.

I’d have to go with 1) Jovo 2) Lumme 3) Öhlund 4) Edler 5) Lidster

GP - G - A - Pts - PIMS - (+/-) - PPG - P/GM

1 SE Alexander Edler 1986 D 873 99 302 401 607 -28 46 0.459
2 CA Harold Snepsts 1954 D 781 35 160 195 1446 -39 5 0.250
3 SE Mattias Öhlund 1976 D 770 93 232 325 756 9 0.422
4 CA Dennis Kearns 1945 D 677 31 290 321 386 -155 11 0.474
5 CA Doug Lidster 1960 D 666 65 242 307 526 -87 22 0.461
6 CA Garth Butcher 1963 D 610 33 107 140 1668 -118 3 0.230
7 CA Kevin Bieksa 1981 D 597 56 185 241 879 22 0.404
8 FI Jyrki Lumme 1966 D 579 83 238 321 379 21 28 0.554
9 FI Sami Salo 1974 D 566 74 162 236 202 78 48 0.417
10 CA Christopher Tanev 1989 D 514 22 96 118 121 43 0.230
11 CA Dana Murzyn 1966 D 452 23 65 88 900 78 0 0.195
12 CA Ed Jovanovski 1976 D 434 57 177 234 536 -3 22 0.539
13 CA Rick Lanz 1961 D 417 56 171 227 331 -78 37 0 0.544
14 CA Dave Babych 1961 D 409 23 131 154 290 -27 13 0.377
- Pacificgem

Ohlund has always been my favorite but I do recognize Edler as the best. You are correct it is not a strong list.

Hughes will probably top that list in 5 years .

Last thread you were asking about the facial expressions of sign language...

In American Sign Language, certain mouth and eye movements serve as adjectival or adverbial modifiers.

It’s an essential part of the language I guess. The guy doing our provincial announcements is amazing. I can’t stop watching him.
- bloatedmosquito

it cracks me up! One thing I’ve learned as I get older, you never get any more mature, you just get older lol.

Married at 19, poor buggar!

Great stuff Carol, i find the old stephen king novels don’t hold up too well. They’re really long-winded for not much of a reason. His prose got so much better.

Final note: ufa wishlist time?

Ohlund has always been my favorite but I do recognize Edler as the best. You are correct it is not a strong list.

Hughes will probably top that list in 5 years .
- VANTEL

No doubt, how sad is that

Married at 19, poor buggar!

Great stuff Carol, i find the old stephen king novels don’t hold up too well. They’re really long-winded for not much of a reason. His prose got so much better.

Final note: ufa wishlist time?
- neem55

I was laying pipe like Johnny Holmes at 19, WTF is that kid thinking

No doubt, how sad is that
- Pacificgem

Better late than never?

Married at 19, poor buggar!

Great stuff Carol, i find the old stephen king novels don’t hold up too well. They’re really long-winded for not much of a reason. His prose got so much better.

Final note: ufa wishlist time?
- neem55

How many are we allowed?

New thread so I’ll re-post this...they’re listed in order of games played.


I’ve been looking through the Canucks all-time stats to try and figure out who our best ever defenceman is, stipulation is you must have played 400+ games with the franchise, so a good healthy contribution and sample size. I just can’t bring myself to say Alex Edler is that guy. It’s not a great list and a major downfall for the Canucks.

I’d have to go with 1) Jovo 2) Lumme 3) Öhlund 4) Edler 5) Lidster

GP - G - A - Pts - PIMS - (+/-) - PPG - P/GM

1 SE Alexander Edler 1986 D 873 99 302 401 607 -28 46 0.459
2 CA Harold Snepsts 1954 D 781 35 160 195 1446 -39 5 0.250
3 SE Mattias Öhlund 1976 D 770 93 232 325 756 9 0.422
4 CA Dennis Kearns 1945 D 677 31 290 321 386 -155 11 0.474
5 CA Doug Lidster 1960 D 666 65 242 307 526 -87 22 0.461
6 CA Garth Butcher 1963 D 610 33 107 140 1668 -118 3 0.230
7 CA Kevin Bieksa 1981 D 597 56 185 241 879 22 0.404
8 FI Jyrki Lumme 1966 D 579 83 238 321 379 21 28 0.554
9 FI Sami Salo 1974 D 566 74 162 236 202 78 48 0.417
10 CA Christopher Tanev 1989 D 514 22 96 118 121 43 0.230
11 CA Dana Murzyn 1966 D 452 23 65 88 900 78 0 0.195
12 CA Ed Jovanovski 1976 D 434 57 177 234 536 -3 22 0.539
13 CA Rick Lanz 1961 D 417 56 171 227 331 -78 37 0 0.544
14 CA Dave Babych 1961 D 409 23 131 154 290 -27 13 0.377
- Pacificgem

Funny that Ehrhoff only played two seasons (159 games) for the Canucks but had close to 100 points in that time (best two years of his career).

I was laying pipe like Johnny Holmes at 19, WTF is that kid thinking
- Pacificgem

Funny that Ehrhoff only played two seasons (159 games) for the Canucks but had close to 100 points in that time (best two years of his career).
- bloatedmosquito

Great cast of players those two years. He turned that into MILLIONS with his next contract.

How many are we allowed?
- VANTEL

Why put a limit on it! I think tanev will be back. We cant afford much after that, but Toffoli is at the top of the list for me. After that i would mind a cheap shortterm vet dman. Kevin miller, trevor daley, and ron hainsey all come to mind. Keep the term and price down but get some solid depth. If we get those two things, ill be pretty happy.

Stecher is likely to get traded just for cap reasons. I like the kid, but for an undrafted ufa to become actually valuable is a big win for JB imo. Wondering what happens there

Great cast of players those two years. He turned that into MILLIONS with his next contract.
- Pacificgem

And essentially never produced like that again. Weird.

Thanks Carol....and you're very welcome for the recommendation. It's the very least I can so for all of your great work and dedication here. That particular album and movie changed the way I view music and my playing...and life in general. It really is like a warm blanket.

- VANTEL

I'm gonna bet you have every one of these costumes in your playtime wardrobe.

Last thread you were asking about the facial expressions of sign language...

In American Sign Language, certain mouth and eye movements serve as adjectival or adverbial modifiers.

It’s an essential part of the language I guess. The guy doing our provincial announcements is amazing. I can’t stop watching him.
- bloatedmosquito

hands down world champion.

Thanks Carol!

Great cast of players those two years. He turned that into MILLIONS with his next contract.
- Pacificgem

my lasting memory of ehrhoff is him turning away from the puck to avoid the hit in the SCF. enraged me at the time. now i just sigh.

ohlund is the best. great combination of toughness, skill and defence... and he dropped the mitts against iginla. respect!

And essentially never produced like that again. Weird.
- bloatedmosquito

After looking through the NHL teams best defenceman lists, ours actually isn’t that bad. Do you know Tyson Barrie is the Colorado Avalanche’s all-time leading dman for points

hands down world champion.

- RealityChecker

What artist is he signing for?

my lasting memory of ehrhoff is him turning away from the puck to avoid the hit in the SCF. enraged me at the time. now i just sigh.

ohlund is the best. great combination of toughness, skill and defence... and he dropped the mitts against iginla. respect!
- RealityChecker

I’d forgotten about that, thanks for the memories


And yes, Öhlund was great, he wasn’t great at anything but he was very good at most.

What artist is he signing for?
- Marwood

have no idea. is that beyonce? lefty probably knows. he blasts that stuff with the windows down on his truck.