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Canucks Player Power Rankings & Oscar Recap

Feb 23, 2015, 14:33 ESTUpdated:

Welcome back for another week of Oscars jokes Canucks Player Power Rankings!
1. Henrik Sedin, John Shorthouse and their dogs
Henrik Sedin has really bought into that team-on-your-back-never-say-die-Jonathan-Toews-lead-by-example captain role this week with 8 points in his last four games. Also, and possibly more importantly, John Shorthouse revealed on Sunday’s broadcast that his dog is a sibling of Henrik Sedin’s dog.
2. Peter Sedin
The true third Sedin attended Sunday’s game and you’ll never guess what he looks like:
3. Zack Kassian
Amidst his recent success and promotion to the top line, Zack Kassian still remembers to call home every now and then. Arooooooo!!

3. Daniel Sedin
Daniel Sedin has managed to be the third most powerful Sedin this week, which is unexpected and disappointing. Do better, Danny.
4. Radim Vrbata
American Sniper barely featured onstage the Oscars but Czech Sniper has been going about his business tidily and smoothly, while wearing really nice coats:
5. Bo Horvat
Bo knows goals and he hopes that after his wrister on Sunday, other people know Bo’s goals too. Jason Botchford gets the best quotes out of this kid:
BEST MESSAGEYou see that Bo Horvat snipe?He hopes you did.“It’s one of my nicer goals so far, all of the rest have been in the blue paint,” Horvat said.So you can score goals like that?“Ya, now people will know.”
6. Eddie Lack
It has been a good week to be named Eddie. Lack fended off the Wild and relieved injured Ryan Miller with a wonderful 27 save performance.

What is it with Eddies and their happy dances?
7. Ryan Miller
Ryan Miller played one and a half great games this week but will miss out on his would-be return to Buffalo. At least his friendly Swedish pal made sure to secure a win for him:
8. Dan Hamhuis
In the absence of literally all of the other top-4 defensemen, Hamhuis has done a nice job alongside Yannick Weber. Historically, good things happen when Hamhuis and Weber get together:
9. Alex Burrows
Before mysteriously disappearing from the line-up on Friday, Burrows scored a very cool shootout goal. With all due respect to Alexandre Desplat and Interstellar, this move probably should have taken home the awards for Best Original Score and Best Visual Effects:

10. Yannick Weber
This week Yannick gets to say that he’s half of both the Vancouver’s best on-ice pairing and its best off-ice one. Cuuuuute.
11. Luca Sbisa
No pizza delivery boys were called upon at the Oscars this year, despite Luca’s months of preparing for the opportunity. Luca deserves some love though after some decent performances with limited pizzas and an unfortunate puck to the face. He has been rewarded through headwear:
12. Alex Edler
Edler is missed on the blue line but aesthetically he was present at MSG:
13. Ronalds Kenins
Kenins and Horvat have been dynamite together, which is totally something we all expected to be saying in October.
14. Adam Clendening
The offensive defenseman got the chance to be an offended defenseman when he sat next to Alex Burrows and his ketchup on the plane:

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15. Jannik Hansen
Hansen’s week was fine until he accidentally did this and was subsequently demoted to Second Best J/Yanni(c)k:
16. Ryan Stanton
The increased responsibility has taken its toll on Ryan, but luckily he gets to fly with human pillow Zack Kassian.

17. Alex Biega
John Travolta’s favourite hockey memory was Alex Biega’s goal off the stanchion against the Sharks in 2011.
18. Shawn Matthias
Nothing like sobering up after a birthday goal at Madison Square Garden with a night reminiscent of a black hole against the Devils:
19. Chris Higgins
Chris Higgins got to play in his hometown rink for the last time on Sunday. Next year, the Islanders will move to the Barclays Center – who, coincidentally, totally got snubbed at the Oscars for his performance in The Imitation Game.
20. Linden Vey
Linden Vey participated in Canucks games this week. Here he is with some cards. 50 Shades of Grey? More like 50 Spades of Vey. Thank you.

21. Chris Tanev
Chris Tanev is going to come into a lot of money sometimes very soon and while we await his return from injury, he’s got a lot of time to plan out his spending. Perhaps some shampoo?

22. Derek Dorsett
Derek Dorsett is very important to this team because he sure makes everyone appreciate the Sedins a little bit more
23. Nick Bonino
We’ve got no news on Nick Bonino except that Nick Bonino’s reading the news:

24. Brad Richardson
It’s been well over a month since Brad Richardson’s not serious injury occurred.
25. Kevin Bieksa
With the return of Cal Clutterbuck into the lives of Canucks fans on Sunday comes some sadness that Bieksa was not present to throw his glove at Cal again. Perfect call from Shorty, as usual. Also – Dany Heatley and Mike Duco feature in this video. Good times, guys.
26. Nicklas Jensen
27. Brandon McMillan
At least Nicklas Jensen has done something worth tweeting about.
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