Canucks Player Power Rankings – Nov. 23rd, 2015

On Monday, the Canucks gave up a three-goal lead in a loss to the Canadiens. On Wednesday, they snapped the Winnipeg Jets’ six-game losing streak. On Sunday, they lost to a really good goalie named Cory Schneider. There was only one bright spot in the week, but what a bright, bright spot it was. 

 1. Daniel Sedin & Henrik Sedin:

The Sedins should always be at the top of these rankings. I don’t know who I’m kidding when I place them below any other Canuck. In Montreal, Daniel Sedin left the ice covered in blood and returned to score one of the oddest goals of his career and Henrik neatly scored his seventh career short-handed goal against New Jersey. Most importantly, they combined for nine (9) points on Saturday. It’s just too hard to choose between Daniel’s hat trick and Henrik’s 5-point outing. They are so good. 

It has also been a good week for the Sedins’ linemate. A very good week.

Amidst the Hamonic trade talk, Tanev’s value has been widely discussed this week and almost everyone came to the same conclusion: Chris Tanev is really good at hockey. 

The hockey gods will not give Bo Horvat a break, but I will. Horvat has been a pleasure to watch and even though the results are still not coming, fun plays like this one are enough to land him in the top 5. Look at that Devil flail: 

Alex Burrows welcomed a son into the world this week, a son who will have to live with the shame of having a #code-violator for a father. 

Edler had a very solid – albeit somewhat chaotic – game against Patrick Kane and his linemates and collected two assists along the way. This hit is more fun to look at though: 

The young sniper scored his first career powerplay goal this week and it was a nifty one. His career as a Habs killer is looking very promising!

Last week, a coaching challenge took away Vrbata’s meaningless last-second goal in the team’s loss to Toronto. This week, he was credited with a meaningless last-second goal against New Jersey! Everything’s coming up Radim! Vrbata did miss most of the week with a groin injury and failed to score on a penalty shot Sunday night. 

There were bumps along the way, but Miller did not have a bad week. So casual:

Yannick Weber added 2 assists this week but remains a solid last place in the J/Yanni(c)k rankings. 

Chris Higgins continued to be the most generic third liner of all time this week! 

Brandon Prust managed to make Bobby Farnham relevant and for that I think he deserves some recognition.

Returning from injury, the Scrum Lord was certainly noticeable this week, doing his best to destroy at least one opponent per game. 

Dan Hamhuis hitting Jannik Hansen in the head with a puck is the funniest betrayal of all time (Hansen was fine):

Matt Bartkowski continues to wow fans with his ability to skate quickly without doing much else. 

Cracknell has tied his career high of 3 goals. This isn’t wildly impressive, but hey it’s something!

As if adjusting to the NHL wasn’t hard enough on the ice, Virtanen’s teammates stole his phone and switched Jared McCann and Trevor Linden’s contact information. Texts were exchanged and confusion ensued. This sounds like a submission to the embarrassing moments section of Seventeen magazine. I love it. 

Markstrom was in net for losses in Montreal and against New jersey this week. There was at least one goal in each game that Markstrom would surely want back. He did do this though:

This is how things are going for young Sven:

Ben Hutton is hurt and everything is bad. Except for these gifs featuring Ben Hutton, which perfectly describes how everyone feels about Ben Hutton being hurt:

  

It’s his jersey number! Brandon S. is out for now with an abdominal strain.